Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 135
s, whenunder the command of Belshazzar, his son, Babylon was VOL. I. I 1!4 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. captured by Cyrus of Persia (B.C. 539). From this timeuntil its subjugation by Alexander the Great Babylon wasunder the Persians. The religion of the Chaldeo-Assyrian nation was theworship of the sun,… … ^i-cbf^H--— i.,- Fig. 154.—A Winged Bull, Assyria. (M ) earth ; firid Ea, the god of great knowledge : the last threewere the Trinity. Other gods were Dagon, the fish-god ;Ishtar, their Venus ; Nabu, their Mercury and scribe of thegods ; Rammanu, the god of wind and thunder; and Negral,the god of…
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