The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria. Morris Jastrow

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[68] The ideographs for 'country' and 'mountain' are identical Assyrian. The alternation in the title of Ishtar must not be taken to point to a mountainous origin of the goddess.

[69] A full account of this epic will be given at its proper place.

[70] Again, in the incantation texts she appears only as the daughter of Anu, coördinate with Sin and Shamash.

[71] Keils Bibl. 3, 1, 72, note. Some scholars, as Hommel (Gesch. d. alt. Morgenlandes, p. 68), propose to identify this place with the Assyrian Nineveh, but the conjecture lacks proof and is altogether improbable.

[72] Old Babylonian Inscriptions, I. pls. 30, 31. (See now Peiser, Keils Bibl. 4, pp. 64–66.)

[73] Questioned by Peiser, ib.

[74] Among many nations the moon is pictured as a horned animal. See Robert Brown's interesting monograph on The Unicorn, pp. 27 seq. et passim; also above, p. 76.

[75] Simply the sign AN (= god, heaven) and the phonetic complement na.

[76] See above, p. 59.

[77] Written An-na, without the determinative for deity. De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pl. 37, no. 8.

[78] The second element may also be read dar. See Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 24, note 1.

[79] Inscription B, col. ii. 19.

[80] See Hommel, Semitische Kulturen, p. 389.

[81] For the sacred character of the swine among the Semites, see W. Robertson Smith's The Religion of the Semites, pp. 201, 272, 332, 457. Rawlinson, iii. 68, 22, occurs a deity, 'swine of the right hand,' i.e., propitious.

[82] Rawlinson, ii. 59, 23. The second element in Pap-sukal is the common Babylonian word for 'servant,' or 'messenger;' other deities therefore standing in a subsidiary position are also called Pap-sukal. So e.g., Nebo and Nusku. See further on and compare Hommel, Semiten, pp. 479, 480.

[83] Inscription B, col iii. 2.

[84] Uru-kagina, earlier than Gudea (de Sarzec, pl. 32), appears to have built a temple to Dun-shagga, but the passage is not altogether clear. The element also appears in the name of the ruler of Ur, Dungi, i.e., 'the legitimate hero,' as Sargon is the 'legitimate king.'

[85] Signifying, according to Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 25, 'fighting-place'.

[86] Published by Delitzsch, Beiträge zur Assyr. I. 301–311.

[87] So also Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 14, note 3.

[88] So Anu appears to have concubines.

[89] See above, pp. 92, 93.

[90] Inscription C.

[91] De Sarzec, pl. 37, no. 5; Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch. vi. 279.

[92] Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 127, proposes to read Umun-pauddu.

[93] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2, no. 93. The name also appears in syllabaries as Shul-pa-ud-du-a. For the element pa-udda, see p. 103. In Nergal's name Shid-lam-ta-uddu-a (p. 65), the same final elements are found which appear to be characteristic epithets of solar deities. The first element in the name has also the value Dun (as in Dun-gi).

[94] Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 125, 126.

[95] See Journal Asiatique, September-October, 1895, p. 393.

[96] De Sarzec, pl. 8, col. v. ll. 8–12.

[97] IR. pl. 2, no. 4.

[98] Jensen regards Pa-sag as a possible phonetic form, but his view is hardly tenable.

[99] See Zimmern, Busspsalmen, pp. 60, 61.

[100] Cylinder A, cols. iv. and v. Amiaud read the name Nirba.

[101] Just published by Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2, pls. 38–47. Cf. p. 52

[102] VR. col. i. 48.

[103] See at close of chapter vi.

[104] Hilprecht, ib. no. 87, col i. 30.

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