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This touch appears to have been added by the Hebrew writer. Nebuchadnezzar is but a disguise for Antiochus Epiphanes. VR. 33, col. ii. l. 22-col. iii. l. 12. VR. 61, col. vi. ll. 1-13. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 23, no. 62. In the museum at Copenhagen. Described by Knudtzon in the Zeits. f. Assyr., xil. 255. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte, p. 287.

This is a standing phrase in the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar, as well as of other kings. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 270b. Deut. xii. 18; xvi. 14, etc. See pp. 462, 463. See ib. Or zag-mu. Gudea, Inscription G, col. iii. In the later inscriptions we find zag-mu-ku. The k or ku appears to be an afformative. See Amlaud, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 41.

The lower classes are Octava, Septa, Sexta, Quinta, and Quarta; the middle classes, Untertertia, Obertertia, and Untersecunda; the higher classes, Obersecunda, Unterprima, and Oberprima. In her Studies in Historical Method. Mrs. By G.E. Johnson. February, 1900. Zeits. f. Psychologie, u. Physiologie der Sinnes-organe, November, 1900. Bd. 24. By F.W. Colegrove.

Bibl. Arch. viii. 68. So Amlaud; and there seems some reason to believe that the name was used by the side of Utu, though perhaps only as an epithet. Compare birbiru, 'sheen, and the stem barû, 'to see, etc. See Keils Bibl. 3, I, 100. Reading of name uncertain. Suggested by Rawlinson, ii. 57, 10. See Schrader, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 33 seq.

See Jensen Zeits. für Assyr. i. 1 seq. and Delitzsch, Das Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 94. By the assimilation of the n to the following consonant. See above, pp. 173, 175. Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 275. The combination of religious supremacy with political power, which characterizes the social state of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, gives to the title patesi a double significance.