Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology

part i., page 46. This text relates that Sargon, an early Babylonian

monarch, was born of royal parents, but concealed by his mother, who placed him on the Euphrates in an ark of rushes, coated with bitumen, like that in which the mother of Moses hid her child (see _Exodus_ ii.). Sargon was discovered by a man named Akki, a water-carrier, who adopted him as his son; and he afterward...