33a

Updated: May 16, 2025

An official 'the great Si-gar' is mentioned in a list, IIR. 31, no. 5, 33a. One is tempted to conclude that Marduk's statue was removed to Nineveh, not in a spirit of vandalism, but in order to enable Assyrian kings to 'seize the hands of Bel' without proceeding to E-Sagila.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria