ARABIA.
“In the land of Arabia, of the irrigating and building Minyans and star-worshipping Sabæans, the land of the Queen of Sheba, or the number seven (sheba) ... a fresh confederacy was formed, to rival that of the Kushite mountain of the East ...” (Hewitt, p. 291).
It is significant that among the Sabæans the seven-day period prevailed.
ASSYRIA.
Seven directions of heaven and earth, seven territorial districts, seven mountains, seven kings, seven-staged towers, seven year and day periods, etc., pp. [328], [348] and [358].
Four-god cities, square cities, square four-storied towers, four cities, four regions or provinces, four-fold power embodied in king wearing cross, tetrarchies (?).
EGYPT.
Seven classes of people, seven districts, seven-day period, pp. [300] and [375].[137]
Quadruplicate division of capital and state, four fields of heaven, p. [372].
Sacerdotal group consisting of 12+1=13 individuals, p. [437].