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Belus and the sea (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
Babylon
Bel
walls
Period
3rd century BCE
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.41.5:
And concerning the rebuilding of Babylon by Nabûchodonosor, he (= Abydenus) writes thus: ‘It is said that from the beginning all things were water, called the sea, that Belus caused this state of things to cease, and appointed to each its proper place, and he surrounded Babylon with a wall. But in process of time this wall disappeared, and Nabûchodonosor walled it in again, and it remained so with its brazen gates until the time of the Macedonian conquest.

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Abydenus 1
Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.41.5

Amar Annus


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