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Marduk appears under a variety of names which will be taken up at their proper place. See Schrader's Assyrisch-Babyl. Hommel's view that Gish-galla, in Gudea's inscriptions, is Babylon lacks convincing evidence, but the city may be as old as Gudea's days for all that. Near Sippar. Bêl matâti. Sayce, Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, pp. 98 seq.; Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, p. 88.
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.
See above, p. 39, and Hommel's full discussion, Altisraelitische Ueberlieferung, chapter iii. Haupt, pp. 12, 67. Attitude of despair. I.e. 'servant of Ea. The reading Ardi-Ea is preferable to Arad-Ea. Lit., 'sailor. See above, p. 443. Haupt, pp. 64, 36; 65, 1. Altisraelitische Ueberlieferung, p. 35. Tum is the feminine ending. A large measure. Of the week?
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