[388] Movers, "Religion der Phœnizier," 2, 262, 275.
[389] Schrader, "Assyrisch. Babyl. Keilschriften," s. 105.
[390] G. Smith, "Discov." pp. 387, 388; Ménant, "Les Achæmenides." Recently a tablet has been found, supposed to belong to the time of Cæsar.
[391] De Rougé, "Sur l'Origine Egyptienne de l'Alphabet Phénicien;" Lauth, "Sitzungsber. d. Bair. Akad. d." 10, 1867, pp. 84-124. The inscription of Mesha, king of Moab, proves by the formation and use of the letters that this alphabet had been known for a long time.
[392] The Basalt duck of Irba Marduk—no doubt a piece of Babylonian booty—was found at Nineveh.—Layard, "Discoveries," p. 601; Schrader, "Assyr. Babyl. Keilschrift," s. 175; De Vogué, "Rev. Arch." 11, 366.
[393] Ideler, "Handbuch der Chronologie," 1, 207; Sayce, "Bibl. Arch." 3, p. 160.
[394] Ideler, "Sternkunde der Chaldaer," s. 214.
[395] Brandis, "Münzwesen," s. 20 ff.
[396] Herod. 2, 109.
[397] Brandis, "Münzwesen Vorderasiens," s. 36 ff.