[287] We may therefore expect, some day, to come across the name Marduk in Assyrian texts earlier than the ninth century.
[289] So also Shalmaneser II., Obelisk, l. 179, unless Marduk here is an error for Ramman, cf. l. 175.
[291] The so-called Prunkinschrift, ll. 174 seq.
[292] Note the frequent use of Ashur and Bel for Assyria and Babylonia.
[293] Ashurbanabal, Rassam Cylinder, col ix. ll. 76, 77.
[295] IR. II. col. iv. ll. 34, 35.