EGYPT AND BABYLON.
40 "
* deposited my germ in my mother's womb." claims to be the son of Merodach and Ri.f was joined in inscriptions with the great gods, Sin, Sha-
chadnezzar,
Khammurabi
He
mas, and Merodach, during his lifetime, and people swore his name.! Amaragu and Naram-sin are also said to have been deified while still living. It was natural that those who claimed, and were thought to hold so exalted a position, should exercise a despotic authority, and be unresisted, even when they were most tyrannical.
by
* " Records of the Past," vol. t Ibid., vol.
i.,
See note on Dan.
v., p. 113.
t Ibid., vol. v., p. 108.
p. 8. vi. 7,
in the Speakers'
Commentary."