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Jeremias translates 'seeks a friend, and refers the words to Gilgamesh, but there is nothing in the narrative to justify us in assuming that Eabani was thinking of the hero. It is used as a synonym of tappu 'associate, Delitzsch, Handwörterbuch, p. 10. Ideographically, it is composed of two elements, 'strength' and 'acquire. 'Companion in arms' is the fellowship originally meant.
Confining ourselves to the later names, the forms in which they were transmitted during the period of the Babylonian exile to the Jews, we find that the first month which, as we shall see, was marked by sacred observances in the temples of Marduk and Nabu at Babylon and Borsippa was designated ideographically as 'the month of the sanctuary, the third as the period of 'brick-making, the fifth as the 'fiery' month, the sixth as the month of the 'mission of Ishtar' a reference to the goddess' descent into the region of darkness.
He is described ideographically as the 'good god. This interpretation accords admirably with the general force of the verbal stem underlying the name. In both Hebrew and Assyrian a-sh-r signifies 'to be gracious, to grant blessing, to cause to prosper. Ashur, therefore, is the god that blesses his subjects, and to the latter he would accordingly appear as the 'good god' par excellence.
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.
So fond were the Egyptians of their pictorial symbols used ideographically that they clung to them persistently throughout the entire period of Egyptian history. They used symbols as phonetic equivalents very frequently, but they never learned to depend upon them exclusively. The scribe always interspersed his phonetic signs with some other signs intended as graphic aids.
He is designated as the 'warrior. The name of the god is written ideographically with a sign that has the meaning of 'servant' and 'man. To this sign the phonetic complement ra is added.
The festival is described ideographically as Si-gar, but from the fact that the same ideographs are used elsewhere to describe a day sacred to Sin and Shamash, it would appear that Si-gar is not a specific appellation, but a general name again for festival. This month Iyyar and this particular day, as a "favorable one," is chosen by Ashurbanabal for his installation as king of Assyria.
But by degrees, as respect for Chinese literature developed, it became a learned accomplishment to pronounce Japanese words after the Chinese manner, and the habit ultimately acquired such a vogue that the language of men who wrote and spoke ideographically grew to be different from the language of women who wrote and spoke phonetically.
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