Synchronisms between Assyrian and Biblical History.
The Principal Deities of Babylonia and Assyria.
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HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Footnotes
[1]In Dapper'sCircumstantial Description of Asia, it is stated that opposite Mosul is 'a little town called up to the present day by Arab writers Nennouwi, and by the Turks Eski Mosul,' or Old Mosul.
[2]Hyde's words are 'ductuli pyramidales seu cuneiformes.'
[3]For the language of Mitanni, called that of Su(ri) in the Assyrian lexical lists, see Jensen, Brünnow, and myself in theZeitschrift für Assyriologie, v. 2, 3 (Aug. 1890), and for that of Arzawa see my letter to theAcademy, Aug. 20, 1892, PP. 154, 155.
[4]The date partly depends upon the number of years assigned to the dynasty to which Nabonassar belonged, which unfortunately is not stated by the native historians. Consequently, other Assyriologists make it, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower. For the justification of my date see theRecords of the Past, New Series, pp. viii-xi.
[5]A contract-tablet exists dated at Sippara in the second year of Sin-sar-iskun, which shows that the rule of the king was acknowledged in Babylonia.
[6]As determined by Dr. Oppert.
[7]Capitals denote that the Semitic pronunciation of the ideograph is unknown.
[8]Zaggara, rendered by the Semiticbit ili(Beth-el), 'house of God,' as well as byasirtu, 'the symbol of the goddess Asherah' (mistranslated 'grove' in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament).
[9]The fracture of the tablet makes the arrangement of this Dynasty not absolutely certain.
[10]The reading of the name of this god is doubtful. It has been variously transcribed Bar, Nin-ip, and Adar, the last of which, however, is certainly wrong.