United States or Saint Martin ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They are also used in the sense of any permanent provision for a temple through an endowment. Lit., 'the steady' sacrifice. See the technical employment, Dan. viii. 11. VR. 61, col. iv. l. 48-col v. l. 6; see also Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col. iv. l. 90. Belit here used for Ashur's consort; see p. 226. See p. 652. Inscription B, cols. vii-viii.
Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 134, 135. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 33, col. ii. ll. 54-56. VR. 65, col. ii. l. 13. See, e.g., Tiglathpileser I., IR. 16, col. viii. ll. 56, 57; Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. vi. l. 67-71. VR. 64, col. ii. ll. 43-45. Gen. xxviii. 18. Religion of the Semites, p. 364. See Robertson Smith, ib. p. 215.
Anum similarly is better than Anu, but the latter has become so common that it might as well be retained. VR. 33, vii. 34-44. IR. pl. 15, col. vii. 71-pl. 16, col. viii. 88. No less than nine times. Tiglathpileser I. Ramman-nirari I. Kosmologie, p. 274. See the list IIIR. 68, 26 seq. Thureau-Dangin, Journal Asiatique, 1895, pp. 385-393.
Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, plan 2. Papakhu for Pakhpakhu, from the stem pakhû, "to close." Parakku, from Parâku, "to shut off, to lock." Inscription D, col. ii. l. 9. V. Rawlinson, pl. 60. See the chief passage, IR. 54, col. ii, ll. 54-65; another name is E-Kua, 'dwelling. See p. 423. VR. 50, col. i. l. 5. VR. 41, No. 1, Rev. 18. IVR. 57, 24a.
See Jensen's valuable articles, "The Queen in the Babylonian Hades and her Consort," in the Sunday School Times, March 13 and 20, 1897. The text is published, Winckler and Abel, Der Thontafelfund von El-Amarna, iii. 164, 165. Written phonetically e-ri-ish. The word is entered as a synonym of sharratum, 'queen, VR. 28, no. 2; obverse 31.
VR. 61, col. iv. ll. 33, 34. IR. 7, no. ix. Heuzey in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 209. Several examples occur in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée. See also Ward, Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc., May, 1888, p. xxix, and Peters' Nippur, ii. pl. 2. Wellhausen, Reste Arabischen Heidenthums, p. 106. Grotefend Cylinder, col. li. ll. 36-39.
Jensen regards Pa-sag as a possible phonetic form, but his view is hardly tenable. See Zimmern, Busspsalmen, pp. 60, 61. Cylinder A, cols. iv. and v. Amiaud read the name Nirba. Just published by Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2, pls. 38-47. Cf. p. 52 VR. col. i. 48. See at close of chapter vi. Hilprecht, ib. no. 87, col i. 30. Ib. i. 32.
'Eating' appears to be a metaphor for destruction in general. Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 173 seq. Here used as an epithet of the nether world. See above, p. 563. Or 'palace. The lower world, it will be recalled, is pictured as a house or a country. Here the two terms are combined. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 341. The phrases used are the ordinary terms of greeting. See, e.g., VR. 65, 17b.
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.
Mothers, mothers, ho! get them in. See the dog! "Ci! Ci!" In with them! "Blant, i'r ty! Vr ty!" A big black mongrel appeared worrying at one of two petticoated urchins on the ground.
Word Of The Day