Near this statue there is a large table of gold, the throneand its steps are of the same material. The whole, according tothe Chaldaeans, is worth eight hundred talents of gold .... atone time the sacred inclosure also contained a statue of massivegold twelve cubits high. I did not see it. I… … Fig. ii2.—The Caillou Michaux, reverse. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier to execute it. Xerxes, the son of Darius, caused the priest to beput to death by whom the enterprise was opposed, and tookpossession of the statue. We here have the evidence of an eye-witness. The seated statue of Bel, without…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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