The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World; Or, the History, Geography, And Antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, And Persia Vol. 2
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This figure has been called that of a god, and has been supposed to represent the Nis- roch of Holy Scripture ; ^ but the only ground for such an identification is the conjectural derivation of Nisroch from a root nisr, which in some Semitic lan- guages signifies a "hawk" or "falcon." As nisr, The sacred basket (Khorsabad). ^ Supra, page 238. ■^ The basket is often ornamented with winged figures in adoivation before the sacred tree, and them- selves holding baskets. (See Layard, Monuments, Firs...t Series, Pis. 34 and 36.) ^ Layard, Nineveh and its Re- mains, vol. ii. p. 459. Chap. VII I. HAWK-HEADED GENIUB. 265 however, has not Been found with any such meaning in Assyrian, and as the word " Nisroch " nowhere appears in the Inscriptions,^ it must be regarded as in the high- est degree doubtful whether there is any real connexion be- tween the hawk-headed figure and the god in whose temple Sennacherib was assassinated. The various readings of the Septuagint version ^^ make it extremely uncertain what was the name actually written in the original Hebrew^ text.
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