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Rassam, Cylinder viii. 98, 99. 'Belit of Babylonia, honored among the great gods. Annals, iii. 135. The name of the temple. See IIR. 66, ll. 1 and 10. The title 'belit matâti, 'lady of the lands' is evidently introduced in imitation of 'bel matâti, 'lord of lands, belonging to Bel and then to Marduk. VR. pl. 33. Delitzsch, Die Kossaer, pp. 25, 27.
See the author's work on A Fragment of the Dibbarra Epic. Rassam Cylinder, col. lv. ll. 79 seq. Cylinder, ll. 44-53. Babyl. Chronicle, col. iii. l. 44. May also be read Sha-ush-ka. See above, pp. 13, 170. E.g., IIR. 58, no. 5, titles of Ea; IIR. 60, no. 2, titles of Nabu. E.g., IIR. 60, no. 1. E.g., IIIR. 66, lists of gods worshipped in various temples of Assyria and also of Babylonia.
See Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR. 56, col v. ll. 38-54. So, e.g. during the closing years of Nabonnedos' reign. Winckler, Untersuchungen zur Altorient. On the meaning and importance of the rite, see Winckler, Zeits. f. Assyr. ii. 302-304, and Lehmann's Shamash-shumukin, pp. 44-53. Eponym List, IIR. 52, no. 1 obv. 45.
Sha and nakû, i.e., 'the one over the sacrifice. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, vii., 174, note. IIR. 32, no. 3. 'A spear carrier of Marduk' occurs in contract tablets. Dupsharru. Daianu. E.g., IIIR. 48, no. 6, ll. 26, 27. Shangu = priest; makhu = great. See above, p. 657. Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 149b. See pp. 356 seq.
Compare the name 'Belit-seri, 'mistress of the fields, as the name of a goddess who belongs to the pantheon of the lower world. See p. 588. IIR. 61, nos. 1, 2, 6. Text, Kar, i.e., 'dam, 'wall, or 'quay. IIR. 50, l. 8. Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776. Lit., 'enclosure. See Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776 and elsewhere. E.g., IIR. 54-60; IIIR. 67-69; VR. 43, 46. IIR. 60, no. 1, obverse.
Described in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, pp. 216, 217. For other specimens, see ib. pp. 106, 171; and see also Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2. p. 39, note. Inscription D, col. iii, 1-12. See Winckler's note, Keils Bibl. 3, 2, p. 16. IR. 54, col. iii. l. 10. Ib. 55, col. iv. l. 1, 2. IIR. 61. no. 2, obverse.
A collective personification of the seven evil spirits. Ishum. IIR. 51, 19c and 4a. Khashur is also used as a name for the cedar. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 295a. The one published by the writer. Hammurabi is the conqueror of Palestine mentioned in Gen. xlv. under the name Amraphel. See, e.g., Hommel, Altisraelitische Ueberlieferung, p. 106. Num. xxi. 14.
Ekurrâti; Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 718b. IR. 35, no. 3, 22. See below. Hebrew Bamôth. Through the opposition of the Hebrew prophets, the term acquires distasteful associations that were originally foreign to it. See Peters' Nippur, ii. 124 seq. IIR. 50, obverse. Perhaps, however, these several names all designate a single zikkurat. Peters' Nippur, i. 246; ii. 120.
Jensen, ib. p. 140. See above, p. 67. bibbu. Ib. p. 99. Ib. p. 27. See especially Jensen's Kosmologie, pp. 46-57 and 144-160. Jensen, ib. pp. 108, 109. The constant order is moon, sun, Marduk, Ishtar, Ninib, Nergal, Nabu. E.g., IIR. 48, 48-34a-b. Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 151 seq.
From its original meaning, the word became a poetical term in Hebrew for 'worthless, 'useless, and the like, e.g., in the well-known phrase "Sons of Belial." See p. 482. See p. 537. See above, p. 523. IIR. 59; reverse 33-35. See above, p. 175. IIR. 57, 51a, a star, Nin-azu, is entered as one of the names of the planet Ninib. See above, p. 565.
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