Before CHAPTER XIII.
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Jastrow, Morris
Source notes
[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 Assyrian 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 associates 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 goddess, 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 Assyrian texts earlier than the ninth century.
[288] See p. 131.
[289] So also Shalmaneser II., Obelisk, l. 179, unless Marduk here is an error for Ramman, cf. l. 175.
[290] See above, p. 146.
[291] The so-called Prunkinschrift, ll. 174 seq.
[292] Note the frequent use of Ashur and Bel for Assyria and Babylonia.
[293] Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col ix. ll. 76, 77.
[294] See above, p. 205.
[295] IR. II. col. iv. ll. 34, 35.
[296] See below, pp. 231, 237.
[297] Rawlinson, ii. 66.
[298] Rassam Cylinder, col. x. ll. 25-27.
[299] See Tiele, Babyl. Assyr. Geschichte, p. 127.
[300] Obelisk, l. 52.
[301] Annals, col. ii. l. 135.