The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
499 Strabo, xiv. 5. 9, pp. 671 _sq._; Arrian, _Anabasis_, ii. 5;
Athenaeus, xii. 39, p. 530 A, B. Compare Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._
Ἀγχιάλη; Georgius Syncellus, _Chronographia_, vol. i. p. 312, ed. G.
Dindorf (Bonn, 1829). The site of Anchiale has not yet been
discovered. At Tarsus itself the ruins of a vast quadrangular
structure have sometimes been identified with the monument of
Sardanapalus. See E. J. Davis, _Life in Asiatic Turkey_, pp. 37-39;
G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iv.
536 _sqq._ But Mr. D. G. Hogarth tells me that the ruins in question
seem to be the concrete foundations of a Roman temple. The mistake
had already been pointed out by Mr. R. Koldewey. See his article,
“Das sogenannte Grab des Sardanapal zu Tarsus,” _Aus der Anomia_
(Berlin, 1890), pp. 178-185.
500 See G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_,
iv. 542 _sq._ They think that the figure probably represented the
king in a common attitude of adoration, his right arm raised and his
thumb resting on his forefinger.
501 L. Messerschmidt, _Corpus Inscriptionum Hettiticarum_, pp. 17-19,
plates xxi.-xxv.; G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans
l’Antiquité_, iv. 492, 494 _sq._, 528-530, 547; J. Garstang, _The
Land of the Hittites_, pp. 107-122.
502 Prof. W. Max Müller is of opinion that the Hittite civilization and
the Hittite system of writing were developed in Cilicia rather than
in Cappadocia (_Asien und Europa_, p. 350).
503 According to Berosus and Abydenus it was not Sardanapalus
(Ashurbanipal) but Sennacherib who built or rebuilt Tarsus after the
fashion of Babylon, causing the river Cydnus to flow through the
midst of the city. See _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C.
Müller, ii. 504, iv. 282; C. P. Tiele, _Babylonisch-assyrische
Geschichte_, pp. 297 _sq._
504 Diodorus Siculus, ii. 27; Athenaeus, xii. 38, p. 529; Justin, i. 3.
505 G. Maspero, _Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient Classique_,
iii. 422 _sq._ For the inscriptions referring to him and a full
discussion of them, see C. F. Lehmann (-Haupt), _Šamaš-šumukîn,
König von Babylonien, 668-648 v. Chr._ (Leipsic, 1892).
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