Ezekiel tells us how in the latter days of the Jewish kingdom the palace walls of Babylonia were adorned with ‘images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity[1].’ He had already described the Assyrians as ‘clothed in blue,’ ‘clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses.’ They thus differed from the Chaldeans, while the Chaldeans again are distinguished from the Babylonians, who, however, inhabited the same country as themselves and were clothed with the same apparel. The discoveries that have b…
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