Whilst I was gazing and wondering, suddenly it occurred to me-being familiar with the Old Testament-that Solomon went astray after strange gods, the names of three of whom I remembered-"Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, and Milcom, the god of the children of Ammon"-and I suggested to my companions that the figures before us might represent these false and exploded divinities.
Astoreth, sidoniatarren jainkosa; Chemosh, moabiten jainkoa;