_, i. 1, pl. 23, no. 62.
[1510] In the museum at Copenhagen. Described by Knudtzon in the _Zeits.
f. Assyr._, xil. 255.
[1511] Tiele, _Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte_, p. 287.
[1512] In the Berlin Museum (Knudtzon, _ib._). It is also on a knob
which contains remains of an iron stick, to which, evidently, the knob
was fastened.
[1513] Written A-e.
[1514] Hilprecht, _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, i. 1, p. 58.
[1515] In reality, glass colored with cobalt. On this production of
false lapis lazuli, see Peters' _Nippur_, ii. 134.
[1516] For examples, see Hilprecht, _ib._, pl. 18, no. 34; pl. 23, nos.
56, 57; pl. 25, nos. 66, 69; pl. 26, no. 70.
[1517] Peters' _Nippur_, ii. 77, 133.
[1518] So, _e.g._, Peters' _Nippur_, ii. 237, 238, 378, 379.
[1519] De Sarzec, _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, pls. 1 bis and 28.
[1520] The opinion has been advanced that the personage who holds the
cone-shaped object is the fire-god turning the fire drill, but this is
highly improbable.
[1521] _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, p. 239.
[1522] Peters' _Nippur_ ii. 376, and Hilprecht, _Cuneiform Texts_, ix.
pl. 12.
[1523] Peters _ib._ pp. 374, 375.
[1524] See p. 536.
[1525] _E.g._, Gen. xxxi. 19.
[1526] See the specimens and descriptions in _Decouvertes en Chaldee_,
pl. 44 and p. 234.
[1527] Tiglathpileser I. (IR. 12, col. iv. l. 23) presents twenty-five
gods of the land of Sugi.
[1528] Ashurnasirbal, IR. 25, col. iii. ll. 91, 92.
[1529] Winckler, _Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift_, ll.
141-143.
[1530] IR. 27, 8-10.
[1531] VR. 60, col. ii. ll. 11-16.
[1532] See pp. 373-383.
[1533] See above, p. 658.
[1534] This is a standing phrase in the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar,
as well as of other kings. See Delitzsch, _Assyr. Handwoerterbuch_, p.
270b.
[1535] Deut. xii. 18; xvi. 14, etc.
[1536] See pp. 462, 463.
[1537] See _ib._
[1538] 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 reading
za-am-mu-ku is found, IR. 67, col. i. l. 34.
[1539] _resh shatti_. See p. 681.
[1540] Inscription G, _ib._, and Inscription D, col. ii. ll. 1-9. See
also p. 59.
[1541] See above, _ib._
[1542] See, _e.g._, Pognon Wadi Brissa, col. ix. ll. 12-18.
[1543] This follows from a passage in Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR.
54, col. ii. l. 57.
[1544] See p. 654.
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