[241] See above, pp. 173, 175.
[242] Jensen, _Kosmologie_, p. 275.
[243] The combination of religious supremacy with political power, which characterizes the social state of ancient Babylonia and a.s.syria, gives to the t.i.tle _patesi_ a double significance. In Babylonia, moreover, it acquires the force of va.s.sal-king.
[244] The full list is Anu, Ashur, Shamash, Ramman, and Ishtar.
[245] More precisely Arba-ilu, signifying "city of the fourfold divinity" or "four-G.o.d" city. _Cf._ the Palestinian form Kiryath-Arba, "four city,"--originally perhaps, likewise, a city of four G.o.ds, rather than four roads or four quarters, as commonly explained.
[246] IR. 14, l. 86.
[247] _Babyl.-a.s.syr. Geschichte_, p. 85.
[248] See above, p. 83.
[249] See above, pp. 83, 84.
[250] Cylinder B, col. v. ll. 30 _seq._; elsewhere (Ra.s.sam Cylinder, col. ii. ll. 115 _seq._) he prays to Ashur and Ishtar.
[251] Ra.s.sam Cylinder, col. viii. l. 92. Elsewhere, Cylinder B, col. v.
17, Ishtar is called the daughter of Bel. This, however, must be an error; either Sin must be read for Bel, or _khirat_ (consort) for _marat_ (daughter).
[252] See above, p. 151.
[253] See Barton, "The Semitic Ishtar Cult" (_Hebraica_, x. 9-12).
[254] _I.e._, _c._ 1800 B.C.
[255] See p. 154.
[256] See above, p. 149.
[257] See below, p. 237.
[258] A king of Nippur (_c._ 2500 B.C.) bears the name Ishme-Dagan.
[259] See above, p. 154; Tiele, _Geschichte der Religion im Alterthum_, i. 172.
[260] See Hommel, _Geschichte_, p. 490. How much earlier Samsi-Ramman I.
reigned is not known--perhaps only 40 or 50 years.
[261] The _d_ of Dagon would be represented by _d_ in cuneiform writing.
[262] See p. 154.
[263] An eponym in his days bears the name Daganbelusur.
[264] In the El-Amarna tablets (_c._ 1400 B.C.) the governors of the Palestinian states generally address their Egyptian lord as "my sun".
[265] Exactly of what nature we do not know. The a.s.syrian word used, Cylinder, l. 43, is obscure.
[266] See p. 160.
[267] IR. 8, col. i. 85. See above, p. 166.
[268] Ashurnasirbal calls him so in his annals, _e.g._, col. iii. 1.
130.
[269] Bavian Inscription, ll. 48-50. See also Meissner-Rost, _Bauinschriften Sanherib"s_, p. 102. The reading of the name of the city is not certain. It signifies "city of palaces."
[270] _c._ 1120 B.C.
[271] II Rawlinson, 57, 33.
[272] So Tiglathpileser a.s.sociates Ashur and Nin-ib, as those "who fulfill his desire."
[273] Ashurnasirbal"s father bears the name Tukulti-Ninib.
[274] See above, pp. 151, 206.
[275] One of the gates of Sargon"s palace is called after Nin-ib.
[276] See above, p. 57.
[277] See above, pp. 92-94.
[278] _Kosmologie_, pp. 457-475.
[279] He is also called the offspring of a G.o.ddess, Ku-tu-shar, but this reference is not clear. See Jensen, _Kosmologie_, p. 468, note 5.
[280] In a religious text he is addressed as "holy, holy, holy."
[281] Balawat, col. v. ll. 4, 5.
[282] Kar = fortress.
[283] See Sayce, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 438, and Jensen"s important note, _Kosmologie_, pp. 492-494.
[284] See pp. 124, 125.
[285] Cylinder, l. 61.
[286] See pp. 117 _seq._
[287] We may therefore expect, some day, to come across the name Marduk in a.s.syrian texts earlier than the ninth century.
[288] See p. 131.