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See Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria, i. 75, 76. See the illustration in Snouck-Hurgronje Mekka, pl. I.e., of the god, E-Kua being the name of the sacred chamber in Marduk's temple at Babylon. See p. 629, note 1. See p. 60. See p. 282. The largest canal in Babylonia. E.g., ishakku.
The word is explained by a gloss, 'Shamash has made him great. I.e., the month in which one dies. See p. 175. See pp. 505, 506. Vorstellungen, p. 81. Psalms, vi. 6. See also Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, I. 349 seq. Described by Schell in the Recucil de Travaux, etc., xx. nos. 1 and 2. Schell regards the Zurghul duplicate as older than the other.
Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Sardinia, Phoenicia, Judea, Syria, and Asia Minor, ii. 176. Pinches, Babylonian and Assyrian Cylinders, etc., of Sir Henry Peak, no. 18. Cf. Harper, ib. p. 408. A lexicographical tablet, IIR. 56, col. iii. 22-35, mentions four dogs of Marduk. See p. 232. See Harper, ib. p. 426.
Our word 'nightmare' still embodies the same ancient view of the cause of bad dreams as that found among the Babylonians. See above, p. 182. IV R. pl. 5. See Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, i. 61, 62; ii. 81 for illustrations. IV R. 2, col. v. ll. 30-60. The god of humanity. The phrase is equivalent to saying that the spirits are hostile to mankind.
Peters informs me that from his observations at Telloh, he questions whether the building in question represents a zikkurat at all, though, as we know from other sources, a zikkurat existed there in the days of Gudea. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, xviii. Of Sargon's zikkurat at Khorsabad, also, only four stories have been found. E.g. Perrot and Chiplez, ib. p. 128.
There may be some ultimate connection with some of the signs of the zodiac, so Hommel believes, but such connection would have to be judged from the earlier forms that animism takes on, and not in the light of an advanced theology such as appears in the zodiacal system of the Babylonians. See Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, I. 351. The element ki is sometimes omitted.
See, e.g., Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Babylonia and Assyria, i. 84. Article 'Izdubar, col. 776; see Delitzsch, Handwörterbuch, p. 678. If the name is Elamitic, one should hardly expect a Babylonian deity entering as one of the elements. See above, p. 167. See above, p. 284. Haupt's Das Babylonische Nimrodepos, p. 93. Lit., 'he who is applied to for giving a decision. Ta-par-ra-as.
See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldea, etc., i. 143, 255. See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, ib., i. 194, 256, 257. On seal cylinders altar titles are frequently represented. See Schick, Die Stiftshütte, etc., pp. 119 seq. Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 13; see also p. 89. Inscription G, col 1. ll. 15-17. See p. 621.
Heuzey, in a valuable note, already suggests the comparison with the two columns of Solomon's which is here maintained on the basis of the excavations at Nippur. Ib. p. 64. The best example for Assyria is furnished by the magnificent bronze gates of Balawat, now in The British Museum. See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria, i. 142, 143.
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