[Footnote 9: Or, sadi-stone shining.]
[Footnote 10: "Kaldu." There are fragments existing in the British Museum
of a treaty made between this Nabu-bal-idin, King of Kardunias
(Babylonia), and Shalmaneser, son of Assur-nasir-pal. v. "Trans. Soc. Bib.
Archæol.," i. 77.]
[Footnote 11: The Hebrew Sivan.]
[Footnote 12: Literally, "impaled on stakes." But Dr. Oppert and Mr.
Norris generally adopt the rendering given in the text, I. 108, p. 194.]
[Footnote 13: It will be observed that this city is differently spelled in line 27. Irregularities of this kind are very frequent, especially in the termination of proper names.]
[Footnote 14: See note 3, p. 188.]
[Footnote 15: "Ahuni." See l. 61, p. 191.]
[Footnote 16: The Hebrew Sivan.]
[Footnote 17: Or, "as it were situated among the storm-clouds of heaven.">[
[Footnote 18: The nature of these engines ("bilsi") is uncertain.]