THE RELIGION OF
BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

BY

THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D.

Lecturer in Assyrian at University College, London,
Author of "The Old Testament in the Light of the
Records of Assyria and Babylonia"; "The Bronze
Ornaments of the Palace Gates of Balewat" etc. etc.






THE RELIGION OF THE
BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS



CHAPTER I

FOREWORD


Position, and Period.

The religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians was the polytheistic