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Nu-dim-mud being an epithet might, of course, be applied to other gods, but there can be no doubt that it was used to designate more particularly Ea as the artificer. See my remarks, pp. 138, 177 seq. Meissner-Rost, Bauinscriften Sanherib's, p. 105. Cylinder, l. 70. Cylinder, l. 68. Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 445, reads the name Gira. See pp. 527-28.
The term can hardly be used here in the strict sense of 'towers, but appears to have become a general word for a sacred structure. Ib. col. iii. ll. 22-34. Meissner-Rost, Bauinschriften Sanherib's, p. 7. See, e.g., the list IIIR. 66. An exception is formed by the temple to Ramman in the city of Asshur, which has a special name. See the following note. Including the one to Ramman in Asshur.
Ashurnasirbal calls him so in his annals, e.g., col. iii. 1. 130. Bavian Inscription, ll. 48-50. See also Meissner-Rost, Bauinschriften Sanherib's, p. 102. The reading of the name of the city is not certain. It signifies 'city of palaces. c. 1120 B.C. II Rawlinson, 57, 33. So Tiglathpileser associates Ashur and Nin-ib, as those 'who fulfill his desire.
Ea's consort; see above, p. 231. Meissner-Rost, Bauinschriften Sanherib's, p. 99. When upon the fall of the Assyrian empire, in 606 B.C., Babylonia regained her full measure of independence, Marduk once more obtained undisputed sway at the head of the pantheon.
With this distinction clearly impressed upon us, we will be prepared for such modifications of our views of the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon as further researches and discoveries may render necessary. A form of Nebo, according to Meissner-Rost, Bauinschriften Sanherib's, p. 105. See Meissner-Rost, ib. p. 108. For further lists of deities, see pp. 234, 238.
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