Babylonia = Assyria (3)

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Herodotus identifies Babylon as the capital of Assyria and describes it in some detail.

Herodotus 1.178:
It [Babylon] lies in a great plain, and is in shape a square, each side fifteen miles in length; thus sixty miles make the complete circuit of the city. Such is the size of the city of Babylon; and it was planned like no other city of which we know. Around it runs first a moat deep and wide and full of water, and then a wall eighty three feet thick and three hundred thirty-three feet high. The royal measure is greater by three fingers’ breadth than the common measure.

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Herodotus 1.178

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Cf. Assyrians (= Babylonians) in the Persian army (1)
Cf. Babylonia = Assyria (2)
Cf. A custom relating to healing (1)
Cf. Herodotus on the Babylonian burial customs (1)
Cf. Herodotus on the Babylonian cult of Ištar (1)
Cf. Herodotus on the Babylonian customs (1)
Cf. Herodotus on a Babylonian marriage custom (1)
Cf. Herodotus on the Babylonian population (1)
Cf. Herodotus’ description of Babylon (1)
Cf. Herodotus’ description of Babylon (2)
Cf. Herodotus quoted a Babylonian omen (1)
Cf. Herodotus on the walling of Babylon (1)
Cf. The temple of Bel in Babylon (1)
Cf. The two queens of Babylon (1)

Robert Whiting

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