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en-wikipedia-org-9165		Statue of Marduk - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4936	473	74	Mark, writing in the Ancient History Encyclopedia, believes that the account of Herodotus, a Persian king destroying the statue of the deity of a city he just razed, could be anti-Persian propaganda.[3] Furthermore, it is doubtful if the statue was removed from Babylon at all.[33] In From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (2002), Pierre Briant considered it possible that Xerxes did remove a statue from the city, but that this was the golden statue of a man rather than the statue of the god Marduk.[36][37] Though mentions of the statue are lacking compared to earlier periods, contemporary documents suggest that the Babylonian New Year's Festival continued in some form during the Persian period.[38] Because the change in rulership from the Babylonians themselves to the Persians and due to the replacement of the city's elite families by Xerxes following its revolt, it is possible that the festival's traditional rituals and events had changed considerably.[39] Although contemporary evidence for Xerxes's retribution against Babylon is missing,[40] later authors mention the damage he inflicted upon the city's temples.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9165.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9165.txt