vii. 39.
[1376] See pp. 140 _seq._
[1377] The date of this king has recently been pushed down by
Thureau-Dangin, considerably later than the date assigned to him by
Hilprecht (_Revue Semitique_, v. 265-269).
[1378] See p. 110.
[1379] Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 65, col. i. ll. 34, 35.
[1380] This is to be concluded from Nebuchadnezzar, ib. l. 32.
[1381] See Tiele's note, _Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie_, ii. 184, note.
[1382] IR. 55, col. iv. ll. 54-57.
[1383] See Tiele, _Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie_, ii. 190.
[1384] III Rawlinson, pl. 66. The list also contains objects in the
temples used for the cult.
[1385] IIIR. 66. obverse, col. ii. ll. 2-25.
[1386] See p. 207.
[1387] The sign for image occurs in connection with some of the gods.
[1388] 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.
[1389] _Ib._ col. iii. ll. 22-34.
[1390] Meissner-Rost, _Bauinschriften Sanherib's_, p. 7.
[1391] 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.
[1392] Including the one to Ramman in Asshur.
[1393] IR. 2. nos. 11, 2.
[1394] IIR, 50, obverse 13.
[1395] Lge-e-nir = zikkurat; Kidur = shubtu (dwelling); Makh = rabu
(great).
[1396] The name approaches closely to the conception of a zikkurat in
the Book of Genesis, as a 'ladder' connecting heaven and earth. Gen.
xxviii. 12.
[1397] See above, p. 619.
[1398] The ideas 'true, fixed, established, eternal' are all expressed
by the element _Zida_.
[1399] I adopt this reading as the one generally used.
[1400] See above, p. 242.
[1401] Or _tush_. Cf. Bruennow, Sign List, no. 10523.
[1402] Or _ab_. See Jensen, _Keils Bibl._ 3, i. pp. 15, 173.
[1403] See above, p. 57.
[1404] Compare the name 'Belit-seri,' 'mistress of the fields,' as the
name of a goddess who belongs to the pantheon of the lower world. See p.
588.
[1405] IIR. 61, nos. 1, 2, 6.
[1406] Text, _Kar_, _i.e._, 'dam,' 'wall,' or 'quay.'
[1407] IIR. 50, l. 8.
[1408] Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776.
[1409] One is reminded of Isaiah's sentiment (lvi. 7) regarding the
temple of Yahwe, which is to be called 'a house of prayer for the
world.'
[1410] Lit., 'enclosure.'
[1411] The synagogue is called a 'house' just as the Babylonian temple
is, and among names of synagogues (or of congre
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