The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria. Morris Jastrow

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СКАЧАТЬ however, that Ninib is Adar, is still wanting. See Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 457, 458.

[31] From the context (De Sarzec, Découvertes, pl. 6, no. 4, ll. 13–21, and pl. 31, no. 3, col iii. ll. 2–6), there can be no doubt that Shul-gur (or Shul-gur-ana) is an epithet of Nin-girsu. The ideographs descriptive of the edifice suggest a corn magazine of some kind. One is reminded of the storehouses for grain in Egypt. See Jensen's Notes, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, pp. 15, 18, 73. A comparison of the two texts in question makes it probable that Ab-gi and E-bi-gar are synonymous.

[32] Rawlinson, iv. 27, no. 6; 11, 45–46.

[33] It is noticeable that there is no mention made of a special god of Lagash, which points to the later origin of the name.

[34] Inscr. D, col. li. 13; G, col. ii. ll. 1–8; iii. 4 seq.

[35] See Gen. xxiv. 53. Burkhardt, Notes on the Bedouins, i. 109, gives an example of the custom.

[36] The two names are used by Gudea (Inscr. G, col. iii. 12) in a way to indicate that they embrace the whole district of Lagash.

[37] Semit. Völker, p. 382.

[38] See Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, 28, note 2.

[39] The first signifies 'to make,' the third means "good, favorable," but the second, upon which so much depends, is not clear. Amiaud reads tum instead of sig.

[40] E.g., Ninâ (see below).

[41] De Sarzec, pl. 7, col. i. 12.

[42] Hibbert Lectures, p. 104.

[43] Inscr. D, col. iv. ll. 7, 8.

[44] In Rawlinson, ii. 58, no. 6, there is a list of some seventy names.

[45] Rawlinson, ii. 58, no. 6, 58.

[46] De Sarzec, pl. 8, col v. ll. 4–6.

[47] Keils Bibl. 3, 1, 80, note 3.

[48] Rawlinson, iv. 35, no. 2, 1.

[49] See a syllabary giving lists of gods, Rawlinson, ii. 60, 12. Dungi, indeed, calls Nergal once the king of lawful control over Lagash (Rawlinson, iv. 35, no. 2, ll. 2, 3). The exact force of the title is not clear, but in no case are we permitted to conclude as Amiaud does (Rec. of the Past, N.S., i. 59) that Shid-lam-ta-udda is identical with Nin-girsu.

[50] See Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 476–87.

[51] See Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 476–87.

[52] So in the inscription of Rim-Sin (Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 97).

[53] Perhaps the knob of a sceptre. Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. viii. 68.

[54] E.g., Hammurabi (Revue d'Assyriologie, ii. col. i. 21); but also Gudea and a still earlier king.

[55] 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.

[56] Compare birbiru, 'sheen,' and the stem barû, 'to see,' etc.

[57] See Keils Bibl. 3, I, 100. Reading of name uncertain.

[58] Suggested by Rawlinson, ii. 57, 10. See Schrader, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 33 seq.

[59] On Sippar, see Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, etc., 168–169, who finds in the Old Testament form "Sepharvayim" a trace of this double Sippar. Dr. Ward's suggestion, however, in regard to Anbar, as representing this 'second' Sippar, is erroneous.

[60] E.g., in Southern Arabia. See W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, I. 59.

[61] In Rabbinical literature, the moon is compared to a 'heifer' (Talmud Babli Rosh-hashana 22 b).

[62] That the name of Sin should have been introduced into Mesopotamia through the 'Arabic' dynasty (see above, p. 39) is less probable, though not impossible in the light of recent discoveries.

[63] Innanna may be separated into In = lord or lady, and nanna; in and nanna would then be elements added to "lady," conveying perhaps the idea of greatness. See Jensen's remarks, Keils Bibl. 3, I, 20, note 4.

[64] Rec. of the Past, N.S., ii. p. 104.

[65] Keils Bibl. 3, I, 16. See Jensen's note on the reading of the name.

[66] The fame of this temple outlasts the political importance of the place, and as late as the days of the Assyrian monarchy is an object of fostering care on the part of the kings.

[67] That the name is Semitic is no longer seriously questioned by any scholar. The underlying stem suggests etymological relationship with the god Ashur. If this be so, Ishtar may mean 'the goddess that brings blessing' to mankind, but all this is tentative, as are СКАЧАТЬ