Footnote 69: Eridu—the Rata of Ptolemy, was near the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris, on the Arabian side of the river. It was one of the oldest cities of Chaldea. Footnote 70: Cun. Ins. West Asia, Vol. IV, plate 15. Records of the Past. Footnote 71: This is one of the numerous bilingual texts, written in the original Accadian, with an interlinear Assyrian translation, which have been brought from the library of Assur-bani-pal at Nineveh. Footnote 72: Rimmon-Nirari III. Records of Past, Vol. IV, p. 88. Footnote 73: Ins. of Shalmanesar II. Records of P., Vol. IV, p. 66. Footnote 74: It is thought that the worship of Hea or Ea may have been a corruption of the worship of the God of Abraham, as Ea is another form of El, and the early followers of Ea were evidently monotheists. Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, the eminent archæologist, who is a native of Assyria, claims that the early Assyrians worshipped the true God, but under peculiar names and attributes, and that instead of practicing the revolting sacrifices which were made by other gentile nations “they imitated the sacrifices of the Jewish rites.” He bases his proof largely upon his discovery of the bronze gate of Shalmanesar II, with its sculptured presentation of the sacrifice of rams and bullocks, and he says that “the same king, Shalmanesar, took tribute from Jehu, king of Israel, as an act of homage.” Trans. Vic. Ins., Vol. XIII, pp. 190 and 214, also Vol. XXV, pp. 121. Footnote 75: This tablet is almost three inches long and two inches wide. It weighs about three drams (Troy). The inscription was translated by Dr. Oppert. Footnote 76: These inscriptions contain an account of a lunar eclipse mentioned by Ptolemy, which took place March 19th, 721 B.C. Sargon II probably ascended the throne about the year 722 B.C. Footnote 77: The fact that the “men of Cuth” worshipped Nergal is confirmed by 2 Kings xvii, 30. Footnote 78: An allusion to the destruction of the image of Merodach is found in Jeremiah: “Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces. Her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.” (Jeremiah 1, 2.) Footnote 79: 4th Col., lines 1-6. Footnote 80: Col. 10. Footnote 81: This portion of Nebuchadnezzar’s inscription is confirmed by the following statement in the book of Daniel: “And the Lord gave the King of Judah into his (Nebuchadnezzar’s) hand with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god.“ (Daniel i, 2.) Footnote 82: Col. 3. lines 43-45. Footnote 83: Nebo is alluded to as one of the heathen gods in Isaiah xlvi, 1, and kindred passages. Footnote 84: Compare Judges xvi, 23; also 1 Samuel v. Footnote 85: Tablets of Tel-El-Armana, “Dispatches from Palestine in the century before the Exodus,” Rec. of P. Vol. I, p. 64. Footnote 86: Babylonian Literature, p. 64.