Note 325 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)
Walter Armstrong translation
Upon these types see Ménant, Archives des Missions, 1879, pp. 128–9. The signet figured above belonged to a member of the tribe called Egibi, a group of merchants and bankers who seem to have held the highest rank upon the market of Babylon, both under the last national kings, and under the Achæmenidæ.