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aliens, freedmen, or slaves. And Foucart suggests1 that they formed a thiasos of
Phoenician settlers, who had brought with them to the crowded port of Athens
Ba'al Milik or Melek or Molok, their own 'Lord King'2 : Bctal they translated
as Zeus and Milik they transliterated as Milichiosz. This view has commended

Fig. 944.

1 P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1883 vii. 511 ff., id. in Daremberg—Saglio Did.
Ant. iii. 1700 f.

2 On the problematic Malakba'al- or Melekba'al-^/aj see E. Meyer in Roscher Lex.
Myth. i. 2871, ii. 3107, and on Moloch in general E. Meyer and A. Jeremias ib. ii. 3106 ff.,
F. X. Kortleitner De polytheismo universo Oeniponte 1908 pp. 216—227. My friend and
colleague the Rev. Prof. R. H. Kennett has suggested 'that Moloch, to whom first-born
children were burnt by their parents in the valley of Hinnom,...may have been originally
the human king regarded as an incarnate deity': for this important hypothesis see Frazer
Golden Bough'1: Adonis Attis Osiris3 ii. 219 ff. ('Moloch the King').

3 Cp. P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1883 vii. 513 n. 4: 'M. Renan avait fait re-
marquer que la forme la plus vraiseniblable est Milik, que la lebon Aia MiXixiov se rencontre