[1359] Book i. sec. 183.
[1360] See the chief pa.s.sage, IR. 54, col. ii, ll. 54-65; another name is E-Kua, "dwelling."
[1361] See p. 423.
[1362] VR. 50, col. i. l. 5.
[1363] VR. 41, No. 1, Rev. 18.
[1364] IVR. 57, 24a. Jensen"s suggestion (_Kosmologie_, p. 242) to read Mar-duku is out of the question.
[1365] What Jensen says (_Kosmologie_, p. 10) of the temple at Sippar would apply to the papakhu in the temple, rather than to the whole structure.
[1366] De Sarzec, _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, pls. 24, 25 _bis_, etc.
[1367] See p. 537.
[1368] De Sarzec, _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, pls. 4, 4 _bis_ and 43 _bis_. On the latter, bulls, lions, and eagle in combination.
[1369] See p. 653.
[1370] See the plan in Schick, _Die Stiftshutte_, pl. 5. Layard (_Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon_, pp. 642-648) points out some a.n.a.logies between the constructions at Nimrod and Solomon"s buildings, but what he says applies chiefly to the palaces.
[1371] Herodotus, book i. sec. 183, speaks of two altars outside of the temple of Marduk in Babylon. In the case of so important a structure, the number of altars was naturally more numerous.
[1372] See Heuzey"s note in De Sarzec"s _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, p. 65.
[1373] See pp. 109 _seq._
[1374] See p. 106.
[1375] _Recueil des Travaux_, etc., xvii. 39.
[1376] See pp. 140 _seq._
[1377] The date of this king has recently been pushed down by Thureau-Dangin, considerably later than the date a.s.signed to him by Hilprecht (_Revue Semitique_, v. 265-269).
[1378] See p. 110.
[1379] Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 65, col. i. ll. 34, 35.
[1380] This is to be concluded from Nebuchadnezzar, ib. l. 32.
[1381] See Tiele"s note, _Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, ii. 184, note.
[1382] IR. 55, col. iv. ll. 54-57.
[1383] See Tiele, _Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, ii. 190.
[1384] III Rawlinson, pl. 66. The list also contains objects in the temples used for the cult.
[1385] IIIR. 66. obverse, col. ii. ll. 2-25.
[1386] See p. 207.
[1387] The sign for image occurs in connection with some of the G.o.ds.
[1388] The term can hardly be used here in the strict sense of "towers,"
but appears to have become a general word for a sacred structure.
[1389] _Ib._ col. iii. ll. 22-34.
[1390] Meissner-Rost, _Bauinschriften Sanherib"s_, p. 7.
[1391] See, _e.g._, the list IIIR. 66. An exception is formed by the temple to Ramman in the city of a.s.shur, which has a special name. See the following note.
[1392] Including the one to Ramman in a.s.shur.
[1393] IR. 2. nos. 11, 2.
[1394] IIR, 50, obverse 13.
[1395] Lge-e-nir = zikkurat; Kidur = shubtu (dwelling); Makh = rabu (great).
[1396] The name approaches closely to the conception of a zikkurat in the Book of Genesis, as a "ladder" connecting heaven and earth. Gen.
xxviii. 12.
[1397] See above, p. 619.
[1398] The ideas "true, fixed, established, eternal" are all expressed by the element _Zida_.
[1399] I adopt this reading as the one generally used.
[1400] See above, p. 242.
[1401] Or _tush_. Cf. Brunnow, Sign List, no. 10523.
[1402] Or _ab_. See Jensen, _Keils Bibl._ 3, i. pp. 15, 173.
[1403] See above, p. 57.
[1404] Compare the name "Belit-seri," "mistress of the fields," as the name of a G.o.ddess who belongs to the pantheon of the lower world. See p.
588.
[1405] IIR. 61, nos. 1, 2, 6.
[1406] Text, _Kar_, _i.e._, "dam," "wall," or "quay."
[1407] IIR. 50, l. 8.