The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Part 78

[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 congregations) in modern times that form close parallels to the names of Babylonian temples may be instanced 'house of prayer,' 'glory of Israel,' 'tree of life.' The custom of naming Christian churches after the apostles represents a further development along the order of ideas current in Babylonia.

[1412] _E.g._, IIR. 50 (zikkurats); IIR. 61; IIIR. 66.

[1413] See Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776 and elsewhere.

[1414] _E.g._, IIR. 54-60; IIIR. 67-69; VR. 43, 46.

[1415] IIR. 60, no. 1, obverse.

[1416] See p. 172. Some of the G.o.ds invoked by Sennacherib (see p. 238), as Gaga, Sherua, and perhaps also Khani, are foreign deities.

[1417] a.s.syrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, i. 56-59.

[1418] As Lagamal, Kanishurra.

[1419] See Peters' _Nippur_, ii. chapter x, "The History of Nippur."

[1420] _Ib._ ll. 260. (Published in Hilprecht's _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, I. 1. pl. 21, no. 43. See also pl. 8, no. 15.)

[1421] VR. 63.

[1422] VR. pls. 60, 61.

[1423] So, _e.g._, as late as the days of Nebopola.s.sar (Scheil, _Recueil des Travaux_, xviii. 16).

[1424] Besides this temple, there were two others, perhaps only chapels, dedicated to Sin at Ur: (_a_) E-te-im-ila (mentioned first by Ur-Bau, IR. pl. 1, no. 4), and (_b_) E-Kharsag (mentioned first by Dungi, IR. 2, II. no. 2). The zikkurat at Ur had, of course, a special name (IIR. 50, obverse 18).

[1425] See Noldeke, _Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, xi. 107-109.

Hilprecht's theory (_Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, i. 2, 55) has not been accepted by scholars.

[1426] VR. 64, col. i. 3-9; col. ii. 46.

[1427] See p. 444.

[1428] See p. 81.

[1429] See pp. 126 _seq._

[1430] See p. 129.

[1431] So Antiochus Soter, VR. 66, col. i. l. 3.

[1432] For a further account of the financial side of the temple establishments, see Peiser's excellent remarks in his _Babylonische Vertrage des Berliner Museums_, pp. xvii-xxix.

[1433] Hilprecht, _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, i. 2, p. 24.

[1434] Nine magnificent diorite statues of Gudea were found by De Sarzec at Telloh.

[1435] Ashes--the trace of sacrifices--were also found on the altar.

[1436] See the ill.u.s.trations in Perrot and Chiplez, _History of Art in Chaldea_, etc., i. 143, 255. Similar horns existed on the Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician altars.

[1437] See the ill.u.s.trations in Perrot and Chiplez, _ib._, i. 194, 256, 257. On seal cylinders altar t.i.tles are frequently represented.

[1438] Book i. sec. 183.

[1439] See Schick, _Die Stiftshutte_, etc., pp. 119 _seq._

[1440] _Keils Bibl._ 3, 1, p. 13; see also p. 89.

[1441] Inscription G, col 1. ll. 15-17. See p. 621.

[1442] Described in De Sarzec's _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, pp. 216, 217.

For other specimens, see _ib._ pp. 106, 171; and see also Hilprecht, _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, i. 2. p. 39, note.

[1443] Inscription D, col. iii, 1-12.

[1444] See Winckler's note, _Keils Bibl._ 3, 2, p. 16.

[1445] IR. 54, col. iii. l. 10.

[1446] _Ib._ 55, col. iv. l. 1, 2.

[1447] IIR. 61. no. 2, obverse.

[1448] See Perrot and Chiplez, _History of Art in Chaldea and a.s.syria_, i. 75, 76.

[1449] See the ill.u.s.tration in Snouck-Hurgronje _Mekka_, pl. V.

[1450] _I.e._, of the G.o.d, E-Kua being the name of the sacred chamber in Marduk's temple at Babylon. See p. 629, note 1.

[1451] See p. 60.

[1452] See p. 282.

[1453] The largest ca.n.a.l in Babylonia.

[1454] _E.g._, _ishakku_.

[1455] _Sha_ and _naku_, _i.e._, 'the one over the sacrifice.'

_Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, vii., 174, note.