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Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, p. 19. Written ideographically, as the names of the zikkurats and of all sacred edifices invariably are. See above, p. 459. Inscription G, col. i. l. 14; D, col. ii. l. 11. IIR. 50; obverse 20. See p. 472. Kosmologie, pp. 171-174.
The most extensive publication of omens is Boissier's Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, of which two volumes have appeared. Boissier's method of publication is not altogether satisfactory. Introduction to the History of Religions, pp. 28-35. A particularly bad omen. See IIIR. 65, 22, obverse. Boissler, Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, pp. 110 seq.
Besides those at Persepolis, a large tri-lingual inscription was found at Behistun, near the city of Kirmenshah, in Persia, which, containing some ninety proper names, enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson definitely to establish a basis for the decipherment of the Mesopotamian inscriptions. The best account is to be found in Hommel's Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, pp. 58-134.
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