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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Before CHAPTER XIII.

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[263] An eponym in his days bears the name Daganbelusur.
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[264] In the El-Amarna tablets (c. 1400 B.C.) the governors of the Palestinian states generally address their Egyptian lord as 'my sun'.
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[265] Exactly of what nature we do not know. The Assyrian word used, Cylinder, l. 43, is obscure.
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[267] IR. 8, col. i. 85. See above, p. 166.
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[268] Ashurnasirbal calls him so in his annals, e.g., col. iii. 1. 130.
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[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.'
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[272] So Tiglathpileser associates Ashur and Nin-ib, as those 'who fulfill his desire.'
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[273] Ashurnasirbal's father bears the name Tukulti-Ninib.
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[275] One of the gates of Sargon's palace is called after Nin-ib.
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[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.
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[280] In a religious text he is addressed as 'holy, holy, holy.'
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[283] See Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, p. 438, and Jensen's important note, Kosmologie, pp. 492-494.
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[287] We may therefore expect, some day, to come across the name Marduk in Assyrian texts earlier than the ninth century.
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[289] So also Shalmaneser II., Obelisk, l. 179, unless Marduk here is an error for Ramman, cf. l. 175.
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[291] The so-called Prunkinschrift, ll. 174 seq.
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[292] Note the frequent use of Ashur and Bel for Assyria and Babylonia.
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[293] Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col ix. ll. 76, 77.
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[298] Rassam Cylinder, col. x. ll. 25-27.
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[299] See Tiele, Babyl. Assyr. Geschichte, p. 127.

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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Project Gutenberg eBook #20758

Damku, Sharru-ilu, and Sha-nit(?)-ka. THE TRIAD AND THE COMBINED INVOCATION OF DEITIES.