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[1511] Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte, p. 287.
[1512] In the Berlin Museum (Knudtzon, ib.). It is also on a knob which contains remains of an iron stick, to which, evidently, the knob was fastened.
[1513] Written A-e.
[1514] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, p. 58.
[1515] In reality, glass colored with cobalt. On this production of false lapis lazuli, see Peters' Nippur, ii. 134.
[1516] For examples, see Hilprecht, ib., pl. 18, no. 34; pl. 23, nos. 56, 57; pl. 25, nos. 66, 69; pl. 26, no. 70.
[1517] Peters' Nippur, ii. 77, 133.
[1518] So, e.g., Peters' Nippur, ii. 237, 238, 378, 379.
[1519] De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pls. 1 bis and 28.
[1520] The opinion has been advanced that the personage who holds the cone-shaped object is the fire-god turning the fire drill, but this is highly improbable.
[1521]Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 239.
[1522] Peters' Nippur ii. 376, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. 12.
[1523] Peters ib. pp. 374, 375.
[1524] See p. 536.
[1525]E.g., Gen. xxxi. 19.
[1526] See the specimens and descriptions in Découvertes en Chaldée, pl. 44 and p. 234.
[1527] Tiglathpileser I. (IR. 12, col. iv. l. 23) presents twenty-five gods of the land of Sugi.
[1528] Ashurnasirbal, IR. 25, col. iii. ll. 91, 92.
[1529] Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 141-143.
[1530] IR. 27, 8-10.
[1531] VR. 60, col. ii. ll. 11-16.
[1532] See pp. 373-383.
[1533] See above, p. 658.
[1534] This is a standing phrase in the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar, as well as of other kings. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 270b.
[1535] Deut. xii. 18; xvi. 14, etc.
[1536] See pp. 462, 463.
[1537] See ib.
[1538] Or zag-mu. Gudea, Inscription G, col. iii. In the later inscriptions we find zag-mu-ku. The k or ku appears to be an afformative. See Amlaud, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 41. The reading za-am-mu-ku is found, IR. 67, col. i. l. 34.
[1539]rêsh shatti. See p. 681.
[1540] Inscription G, ib., and Inscription D, col. ii. ll. 1-9. See also p. 59.
[1541] See above, ib.
[1542] See, e.g., Pognon Wadi Brissa, col. ix. ll. 12-18.
[1543] This follows from a passage in Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR. 54, col. ii. l. 57.
[1544] See p. 654.
[1545] Signifying 'may the enemy not wax strong.'
[1546] See Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR. 56, col v. ll. 38-54.
[1547] So, e.g. during the closing years of Nabonnedos' reign. Winckler, Untersuchungen zur Altorient. Gesch. i. 154; obv. 6 (7th year); 11 (9th year); 20 (10th year); 24 (11th year).
[1548] On the meaning and importance of the rite, see Winckler, Zeits. f. Assyr. ii. 302-304, and Lehmann's Shamash-shumukin, pp. 44-53.
[1549] Eponym List, IIR. 52, no. 1 obv. 45.
[1550] Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's, pp. 52, 124; of Ashurbanabal, the chronicler tells us that he proceeded to Babylonia in the month of Iyyar, but, this not being the proper month, he did not "seize the hands of Bel." See also Winckler, ib. p. xxxvi, note.