The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[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, Découvertes en Chaldée, 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.