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their two or three lower stories. Our onlydoubt is connected with the possible use of these buildings, theziggitratts of the Assyrian texts. We shall not here stop to re-capitulate the evidence in favour of their religious character ; it willsuffice to quote the description given by Herodotus of… … Attempts to Restore the Principal Types. 369 of Bel or Belus at Babylon. As to whether the ruins of thatbuilding are to be identified with Babil (Fig. Z]) or the Birs-Nwiroud (Fig. 168) we shall inquire presently. This is thedescription of Herodotus :— In the other (fortress) was the sacred…
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