The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[509] The prayer or the lamb.

[510] Lit., 'proceed.'

[511] Knudtzon, no. 66. Other examples are furnished in George Smith's History of Ashurbanabal, pp. 184, 185.

[512] A district to the northeast of Assyria; Knudtzon, no. 29.

[513] Ib. no. 107.

[514] Ib. no. 101.

[515] Four volumes comprising several hundred letters have already appeared under the title, Assyrian Letters of the K. Collection (London, 1896). For a good summary of the character of the Assyrian epistolary literature, see Johnston's article in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, xviii. 1, pp. 125-134.

[516] Harper, no. 77.

[517] E.g., Knudtzon, no. 124.

[518] Zimmern, Busspsalmen, p. 32. The popularity of the sun-cult in Assyria in connection with omens and oracles is probably due also in part to the influence of Marduk, who was, as we have seen, a solar deity.