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In its main outlines it resembled a temple in Babylonia or Assyria. There, too, there was an outer court and an inner sanctuary, with its parakku or "mercy-seat," and its ark of stone or wood, in which an inscribed tablet of stone was kept.
This room, known as the papakhu or parakku, was the most sacred part of the temple, and it is doubtful whether any but the king or the highest officials had access to it. Certainly, no one could approach the presence of the deity without the mediation of a priest.
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.
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