The Jewish Targum on 2 Chron. xxxiii. 1 1 says that Manasseh was confined in a K&JTlJ HI/ID — a mule of brass. This is supposed by Dr Nestle to be a mistake for H /TD = zodiac. He has just published an explanation of this word in the Zeitschrift f. d. alttest. Wissenschaft. I understand him to mean that it was a brazen bull, representing the constellation Taurus, in which the unfortunate king was enclosed.