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[1456] That these terms represent cla.s.ses of priests is indicated by the fact that the abstract derivatives shangutu, kalutu, is.h.i.+pputu, and also ramkutu (see below) are used as general terms for priesthood.

[1457] IIR. 32, no. 3.

[1458] 'A spear carrier of Marduk' occurs in contract tablets.

[1459] _Dupsharru_.

[1460] _Daianu_.

[1461] _E.g._, IIIR. 48, no. 6, ll. 26, 27.

[1462] _Shangu_ = priest; _makhu_ = great.

[1463] See above, p. 657.

[1464] Delitzsch, _a.s.syr. Handworterbuch_, p. 149b.

[1465] See pp. 356 _seq._

[1466] On these night watches, see Delitzsch's article in the _Zeitschrift fur Keilschriftforschung_, ll. 284-294.

[1467] See above, pp. 267, 343.

[1468] _Kharimtu_, _Kisritu_, _Ukhatu_, _Shamuktu_. See IIR, 32, no. 2, ll. 31-36, and above, pp. 475, 484.

[1469] See his article on "Sacrifice" in the 9th edition of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ and his _Religion of the Semites_, Lectures VI-XI.

[1470] So in the regulations of the priestly code (Lev. iii. 14-17).

[1471] Inscription G, cols, iii-vi.

[1472] Hardly 'roosters,' as Jensen (_Kosmologie_, p. 517) proposes.

[1473] See, _e.g._, Gudea, Inscription F, cols. iii, iv.

[1474] See on this general subject Marillier's admirable articles, "La Place du Totemisme dans l'evolution religieuse" (_Revue de l'Histoire des Religions_, x.x.xvi).

[1475] See pp. 397, 398.

[1476] See Peters' _Nippur_, ll. 131, and Hilprecht, _Cuneiform Texts_, ix. pl. xiii.

[1477] See Ward, "On Some Babylonian Cylinders supposed to represent Human Sacrifices" (_Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc._ May, 1888, pp.

xxvlii-x.x.x).

[1478] See, _e.g._, Layard, _Monuments of Nineveh_, 1st series, pls. 7, 23; Place, _Nineve et l'a.s.syrie_, pl. 46, etc.

[1479] "The Winged Figures of the a.s.syrian and Other Ancient Monuments,"

_Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._ xii. 383-393; see also Bonavia, "The Sacred Trees of the a.s.syrian Monuments," _Babylonian and Oriental Record_, vols. iii, iv, whose conclusions, however, are not always acceptable.

[1480] See chapter xix, "Oracles and Omens."

[1481] See pp. 295-299.

[1482] See, _e.g._, Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. v. ll. 50-54; Ashurbanabal, Ra.s.sam Cylinder, col. ii. l. 116, and col. iv. l. 9.

[1483] IIR. 67, 11, 12.

[1484] Cylinder, l. 4.

[1485] Winckler, _Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift_, ll.

134, 135.

[1486] Hilprecht, _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_, i. 1, pl. 33, col. ii.

ll. 54-56.

[1487] VR. 65, col. ii. l. 13.

[1488] See, _e.g._, Tiglathpileser I., IR. 16, col. viii. ll. 56, 57; Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. vi. l. 67-71.

[1489] VR. 64, col. ii. ll. 43-45.

[1490] Gen. xxviii. 18.

[1491] _Religion of the Semites_, p. 364.

[1492] See Robertson Smith, ib. p. 215.

[1493] VR. 61, col. iv. ll. 33, 34.

[1494] IR. 7, no. ix.

[1495] Heuzey in De Sarzec's _Decouvertes en Chaldee_, p. 209.

[1496] Several examples occur in De Sarzec's _Decouvertes en Chaldee_.

See also Ward, _Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc._, May, 1888, p. xxix, and Peters' _Nippur_, ii. pl. 2.

[1497] Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidenthums_, p. 106.

[1498] Grotefend Cylinder, col. li. ll. 36-39.

[1499] They are also used in the sense of any permanent provision for a temple through an endowment.

[1500] Lit., 'the steady' sacrifice. See the technical employment, Dan.

viii. 11.

[1501] VR. 61, col. iv. l. 48-col v. l. 6; see also Ashurbanabal, Ra.s.sam Cylinder, col. iv. l. 90.

[1502] Belit here used for Ashur's consort; see p. 226.