[1431] So Antiochus Soter, VR. 66, col. i. l. 3.

[1432] For a further account of the financial side of the temple establishments, see Peiser's excellent remarks in his Babylonische Verträge des Berliner Museums, pp. xvii-xxix.

[1433] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2, p. 24.

[1434] Nine magnificent diorite statues of Gudea were found by De Sarzec at Telloh.

[1435] Ashes—the trace of sacrifices—were also found on the altar.

[1436] See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldea, etc., i. 143, 255. Similar horns existed on the Hebrew and Phœnician altars.

[1437] See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, ib., i. 194, 256, 257. On seal cylinders altar titles are frequently represented.

[1438] Book i. sec. 183.

[1439] See Schick, Die Stiftshütte, etc., pp. 119 seq.

[1440] Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 13; see also p. [89].