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[1471] Inscription G, cols, iii-vi.
[1472] Hardly 'roosters,' as Jensen (Kosmologie, p. 517) proposes.
[1473] See, e.g., Gudea, Inscription F, cols. iii, iv.
[1474] See on this general subject Marillier's admirable articles, "La Place du Totemisme dans l'evolution religieuse" (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, xxxvi).
[1475] See pp. 397, 398.
[1476] See Peters' Nippur, ll. 131, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. xiii.
[1477] See Ward, "On Some Babylonian Cylinders supposed to represent Human Sacrifices" (Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc. May, 1888, pp. xxvlii-xxx).
[1478] See, e.g., Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 1st series, pls. 7, 23; Place, Nineve et l'Assyrie, pl. 46, etc.
[1479] "The Winged Figures of the Assyrian and Other Ancient Monuments," Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. xii. 383-393; see also Bonavia, "The Sacred Trees of the Assyrian Monuments," Babylonian and Oriental Record, vols. iii, iv, whose conclusions, however, are not always acceptable.
[1480] See chapter xix, "Oracles and Omens."
[1481] See pp. 295-299.
[1482] See, e.g., Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. v. ll. 50-54; Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col. ii. l. 116, and col. iv. l. 9.
[1483] IIR. 67, 11, 12.
[1484] Cylinder, l. 4.
[1485] Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 134, 135.
[1486] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 33, col. ii. ll. 54-56.
[1487] VR. 65, col. ii. l. 13.
[1488] See, e.g., Tiglathpileser I., IR. 16, col. viii. ll. 56, 57; Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. vi. l. 67-71.
[1489] VR. 64, col. ii. ll. 43-45.
[1490] Gen. xxviii. 18.
[1491]Religion of the Semites, p. 364.
[1492] See Robertson Smith, ib. p. 215.
[1493] VR. 61, col. iv. ll. 33, 34.
[1494] IR. 7, no. ix.
[1495] Heuzey in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 209.
[1496] Several examples occur in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée. See also Ward, Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc., May, 1888, p. xxix, and Peters' Nippur, ii. pl. 2.
[1497] Wellhausen, Reste Arabischen Heidenthums, p. 106.
[1498] Grotefend Cylinder, col. li. ll. 36-39.
[1499] They are also used in the sense of any permanent provision for a temple through an endowment.
[1500] Lit., 'the steady' sacrifice. See the technical employment, Dan. viii. 11.
[1501] VR. 61, col. iv. l. 48-col v. l. 6; see also Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col. iv. l. 90.
[1502] Belit here used for Ashur's consort; see p. 226.
[1503] See p. 652.
[1504] Inscription B, cols. vii-viii.
[1505] Chapter iii. 1-7.
[1506] This touch appears to have been added by the Hebrew writer. Nebuchadnezzar is but a disguise for Antiochus Epiphanes.
[1507] VR. 33, col. ii. l. 22-col. iii. l. 12.
[1508] VR. 61, col. vi. ll. 1-13.
[1509] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 23, no. 62.
[1510] In the museum at Copenhagen. Described by Knudtzon in the Zeits. f. Assyr., xil. 255.