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The same individual, Kashtariti, and the Gimirrites, Medes, etc., are mentioned in many other prayers prepared in the course of the campaign; and elsewhere other campaigns are introduced. What Esarhaddon did, no doubt his successors also did, as he himself followed the example set by his predecessors.
The oracle deals with the Gimirrites, the same people in regard to whom Esarhaddon so often consults the sun-god. It is marked by the more definite character of its announcements when compared with others. The text is in the form of a communication made to the king, and, like other official documents, it begins with a salutation. The gods give Esarhaddon greeting.
The priest thereupon repeats his question to the sun-god: I ask thee, O Shamash! great lord! whether from the 3d day of this month of Iyar, up to the 11th day of the month of Ab of this year, Kashtariti, with his soldiers, whether the Gimirrites, the Manneans, the Medes, or whether any enemy whatsoever will take the said city, Kishassu, enter that said city, Kishassu, seize said city, Kishassu, with their hands, obtain it in their power.
Esarhaddon, being hard pressed by a group of nations to the northeast of Assyria, led by a certain Kashtariti, and among whose followers the Gimirrites, the Medes, and Manneans are the most prominent, asks for an oracle from Shamash as to the outcome of the situation. The priest, acting as mediator, addresses the god: O Shamash! great lord! As I ask thee, do thou in true mercy answer me.
Perhaps a proverbial phrase, having the force of 'I nurture thee as thy own mother did. Constituting the host of Ishtar, which is elsewhere referred to, e.g., IVR. 2d Ed. pt. 61, col. i. 27. Lit., 'the future or later things like the former. Published by S. A. Strong, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, ii. 627-33. The opening lines, containing a reference to the Gimirrites, are imperfectly preserved.
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