The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[1351] Ib. p. 64.

[1352] The best example for Assyria is furnished by the magnificent bronze gates of Balawat, now in The British Museum. See Birch and Pinches, The Bronze Ornaments of the Palace Gates of Balawat (London, 1881).

[1353] See the illustrations in Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria, i. 142, 143.

[1354] So Puchstein and Friedrich, but see Meissner-Rost, Noch einmal das Bithillâni und die Assyrische Säule (Leipzig, 1893).

[1355] Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, plan 2.

[1356] Papakhu for Pakhpakhu, from the stem pakhû, "to close." Parakku, from Parâku, "to shut off, to lock."

[1357] Inscription D, col. ii. l. 9.

[1358] V. Rawlinson, pl. 60.

[1359] Book i. sec. 183.

[1360] See the chief passage, IR. 54, col. ii, ll. 54-65; another name is E-Kua, 'dwelling.'