BEROSSUS  , a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest of See also:

• BEL

Bel at See also:

• BABYLON (mod. Hillah)

Babylon, who translated into See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek the See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard Babylonian See also:

• WORK

work on See also:

• ASTROLOGY

astrology and See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, and compiled (in three books) the See also:

• HISTORY

history of his See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country from native documents, which he published in Greek in the reign of See also:

• ANTIOCHUS

Antiochus II . (25o B.C.) . His See also:

• WORKS

works have perished, but extracts from the history have been preserved by See also:

• JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)

Josephus and See also:

• EUSEBIUS
• EUSEBIUS (Gr. EuOi/3tos, from ebaegils, pious, cf. the Latin name Pius)
• EUSEBIUS [OF CAESAREA] (c. 260-c. 340)
• EUSEBIUS [OF EMESA] (d. c. "36o)

Eusebius, the latter of whom probably derived them not directly from Berossus, but through the See also:

• MEDIUM

medium of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander Polyhistor and See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus . The extracts containing the Babylonian cosmology, the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of the antediluvian See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Babylonia, and the Chaldaean See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the See also:

• DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

Deluge, have been shown by the decipherment of the See also:

• CUNEIFORM (from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

cuneiform texts to have faithfully reproduced the native legends; we may, therefore, conclude that the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the History was equally trustworthy . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, a list of See also:

• POST

post-diluvian dynasties, which is quoted by Eusebius and Georgius See also:

• SYNCELLUS

Syncellus as having been given by Berossus, cannot, in its See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, be reconciled with the monumental facts, though a substratum of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical truth is discoverable in it . As it stands, it is as follows: i . 86 Chaldaean kings 34,080 or 33,091 years 2 . 8 Median „ 224 3 . I I other kings „ no number . 4 . 49 Chaldaean „ 458 5 . 9 Arabian ,, 245 6 .

45 See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian , 526 „ After these, according to Eusebius, came the reign of Pul . By means of an ingenious See also:

• CHRONOLOGICAL

chronological See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination, the several items of which, however, are very questionable, J . A . See also:

• BRANDIS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST (1790–1867)

Brandis 1 assigned 258 years to the 3rd See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty; other summations have been proposed with equally little assurance of certainty . If Eusebius can be trusted, the 6th dynasty ended in 729 B.c., the See also:

• YEAR

year in which Pul or Tiglath-pileser III. was crowned See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of Babylonia . But all attempts to harmonize the See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of dynasties thus ascribed to Berossus with the list given us in the so-called dynastic Tablets discovered by Dr Pinches have been failures . The See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers, whether of kings or of years, cannot have been handed down to us correctly by the Greek writers . All that seems certain is that Berossus arranged his history so that it should fill the astronomical See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of 36,000 years, beginning with the first See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and ending with the See also:

• CON

con-quest of Babylon by Alexander the See also:

• GREAT

Great . See J . P . See also:

• CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892)

Cory, See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Fragments (1826, ed. by E . R .

Hodges, 1876) ; Fr . See also:

• LENORMANT, FRANCOIS (1837–1883)

Lenormant, Essai de commentaire See also:

• DES

des fragments cosmogoniques de Berose (1872) ; A. von See also:

• GUTSCHMID, ALFRED, BARON VON (1835-1887)

Gutschmid in the Rheinisches Museum (1853) ; See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith in T.S.B.A. iii., 1874, pp . 361-379; Th . G . Pinches in P.S.B.A., 1880-1881 . (A . H .