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1241 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter B
   It is, however, more likely that it was near Babylon, as Berossus states that Nabonnedus (Belshazzar) fled thither, on the capture of Babylon by Cyrus. (19.31)

2. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) book 10, section 103
   But Zedekiah did not believe their prophecies, for the reason following: It happened that the two prophets agreed with one another in what they said as in all other things, that the city should be taken, and Zedekiah himself should be taken captive; but Ezekiel disagreed with him, and said that Zedekiah should not see Babylon, while Jeremiah said to him, that the king of Babylon should carry him away thither in bonds. (16.96)

3. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter B, entry Ba^by^lo_n
   For Babylon, the city Babylon, ; ; cf. (16.10)

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14 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 2 act 4, scene 3, line 133
   Tamburlaine To Babylon my Lords, to Babylon.
   (11.49)

2. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 2 act 5, scene 2, line 1
   Callapine King of Amasia, now our mighty hoste,
   Marcheth in Asia major, where the streames,
   Of Euphrates and Tigris swiftly runs,
   And here may we behold great Babylon,
   Circled about with Limnasphaltis Lake,
   Where Tamburlaine with all his armie lies,
   Which being faint and weary with the siege,
   Wee may lie ready to encounter him,
   Before his hoste be full from Babylon,
   And so revenge our latest grievous losse,
   If God or Mahomet send any aide.
   (6.84)

3. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 2 act 5, scene 1, line 34
   Governour HowW (qy) is my soule environedBr (later)D1 (qy),
   And this eternisde citie Babylon,
   Fill'd with a packe of faintheart Fugitives,
   That thus intreat their shame and servitude?
   (5.60)

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1 from Peachum's Garden of Eloquence

1. Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Tropes part Tropes of Sentences, subpart Sarcasmus
   This saying was uttered in scornful and insulting manner against the poore Israelites being captives in Babylon. (2.38)

96 from Renaissance Materials

1. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   The passing over Tygris from Babylon to this Borough is by a long bridge made of boates chained together with great chaines : provided, that when the river waxeth great with the abundance of raine that falleth, then they open the bridge in the middle, where the one halfe of the bridge falleth to the walles of Babylon, and the other to the brinks of this Borough, on the other side of the river: and as long as the bridge is open, they passe the river in small boats with great danger, because of the smalnesse of the boats, and the overlading of them, that with the fiercenesse of the streame they be overthrowen, or els the streame doth cary them away, so that by this meanes, many people are lost and drowned: this thing by proofe I have many times seene. (8.86)

2. James I, The Political Works of James I (ed. Charles Howard McIlwain)
   Then doeth this Chapter conclude with the last plague that is powred out of the seuenth Viall vpon the Antichrist, which is the day of Iudgement: for then Babylon (saith he) came in remembrance before God. (6.71)

3. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   FELUCHIA is a village where they that come from Bir doe unbarke themselves and unlade their goods, and it is distant from Babylon a dayes journey and an halfe by land: Babylon is no great city, but it is very populous, and of great trade of strangers because it is a great thorowfare for Persia, Turkia, and Arabia : and very often times there goe out from thence Carovans into divers countreys: and the city is very copious of victuals, which comme out of Armenia downe the river of Tygris, on certaine Zattares or Raffes made of blowen hides or skinnes called Utrii. (6.49)

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43 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 1686
   British consul at Aleppo, 1584; wrote treatise on ‘Money and Measures of Babylon, Balsara, and the Indies. (9.65)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter L, entry 17814
   excavator of Nineveh and politician; born in Paris; in solicitor's office in London 1833-9; travelled in Turkey and Persia; visited Mosul with Emil Botta, then French consul there, who had begun excavations in the mounds near the site of Nineveh; employed by Stratford Canning (afterwards Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe) [q. v.] to travel unofficially through Western Turkey and report affairs; commissioned by Canning to explore site of Nineveh, 1845; began operations at Nimrûd, which was afterwards identified as site of the Assyrian city of Calah; superintended for British Museum excavations at Kal'at Sker[kdot ]àt (site of city of Ashur) and at Kuyunjik, 1846; published ‘Nineveh and its Remains,’ 1848-9, incorrectly supposing Nimrûd to be within precincts of Nineveh; attaché to embassy at Constantinople, 1849-51; superintended excavations at Kuyunjik and Nebi-Yunus; published ‘Nineveh and Babylon,’ 1853; lord rector of Aberdeen University, 1855; liberal M.P. for Aylesbury, 1852-7, and for Southwark, 1860; under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1852 and 1861-6; chief commissioner of works, 1868-9; privy councillor, 1868; British minister at Madrid, 1869-77, and Constantinople, 1877-80; G.C.B., 1878; published ‘Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia,’ 1887, and writings on art. (6.37)

3. Henry Mayhew, Extra Volume: London Labour and the London Poor chapter 5, page 42
   Another state, known to us from Scripture, is Babylon, surnamed the Whore, as well from its profligacy as its idolatry. (5.74)

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16 from American Memory: California

1. In the footprints of the padres. By Charles Warren Stoddard page 66
   Representatives of almost every nation on earth could testify to this, and did repeatedly testify to it in almost every language known to the human tongue; for there never was a more cosmical commonwealth than sprang out of chaos on that Pacific coast; and there never was a city less given to following in the footsteps of its elder and more experienced sister Nor was there ever a more spontaneous outburst of happy-go-luckiness than that which made of young San Francisco a very Babel and a bouncing baby Babylon. (6.54)

2. Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco, California; embracing incidents, triumphant death scenes, etc. By Rev. William Taylor. Edited by W.P. Strickland page 135
   Said he to me: "Do you remember preaching from the deck of a steamboat at Long Wharf, nine months ago, from a text concerning the destruction of Babylon, and the death of Belshazzar? (4.55)

3. A picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stories taken from real life. By William Grey [pseudonym] page 56
   All the fixtures are of a keeping most expensive, most voluptuous, most gorgeous, the favorite ones with the same class of humanity, whose dress and decorations have made so significant, ever since the name of their city and trade `Babylon. (4.55)

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16 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century; with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her “Book of life.” page 193
   Languishing with homesickness, the worst of ailments, they were a striking counterpart of those sorrowing captives who, sitting by the rivers of Babylon, hung their harps upon the willows and wept for remembered joys. (3.42)

2. A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland page 256
   As I had my little Bible in my hand, I turned to the predicted destruction of Babylon in Revelation, and read, “Fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. (3.16)

3. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 599
   From glowing accounts given me in Guatemala I was justified in expecting to find Comitan, the largest city in southern Mexico, an attractive place, its suburbs equaling beauty, if not excelling, the hanging gardens of Babylon. (2.78)

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16 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. George Alfred Townsend, Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city. By Geo. Alfred Townsend page 731
   Babylon's a fallen,
   Babylon's a fallen;
   We're gwine to occupy the land. (4.28)

2. Mary Clemmer, Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them page 40
   They are none of them, however, comparable to the old Babylon revived in Philadelphia and exemplified. (3.79)

3. William Byrd, A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd page 200
   I question not but there are thirty thousand acres at least, lying altogether, as fertile as the lands were said to be about Babylon, which yielded, if Herodotus tells us right, an increase of no less than two or three hundred for one. (3.16)

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3 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 7983
   IRAQ, BABYLON (7.64)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 209500
   IRAQ, BABYLON (4.79)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 275481
   IRAQ, BABYLON (3.99)