[1371] Herodotus, book i. sec. 183, speaks of two altars outside of the temple of Marduk in Babylon. In the case of so important a structure, the number of altars was naturally more numerous.

[1372] See Heuzey's note in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 65.

[1373] See pp. [109] seq.

[1374] See p. [106].

[1375] Recueil des Travaux, etc., xvii. 39.

[1376] See pp. [140] seq.

[1377] The date of this king has recently been pushed down by Thureau-Dangin, considerably later than the date assigned to him by Hilprecht (Revue Semitique, v. 265-269).

[1378] See p. [110].

[1379] Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 65, col. i. ll. 34, 35.

[1380] This is to be concluded from Nebuchadnezzar, ib. l. 32.