Some were of wood, others of stone, others again of metal; and these last were either solid or plated.

The metals employed were gold, silver, brass, or rather bronze, and iron.

Occasionally the metal was laid over a clay model.
Sometimes images of one metal were overlaid with plates of another, as was the case with one of the great images of Bel, which was originally of silver but was coated with gold by Nebuchadnezzar.
The worship of the Babylonians appears to have been conducted with much pomp and magnificence.

A description has been already given of their temples.

Attached to these imposing structures was, in every case, a body of priests; to whom the conduct of the ceremonies and the custody of the treasures were intrusted.