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SECOND BOOK OF KINGS XX. 33
Notes cmd Illustrations. Kardunias, name of the kingdom of 343
Merodach-Baladan, which, as may be seen from line 9, also included
Babylon. On the extent included under this geographical term see
my Keilinsch. u. Gesch. p. 534;—ummS,nu, here ideogram, written
below in line 10 phonetically. On the rest see above on Sanherib's
Taylor-cylinder. It is also to be observed that in the parallel passage
Sanherib after the words ummani m&t I'lamti has also risi "auxiliaries",
"allies", root HUI from which comes the often-used word
risiit "help";—7. tamhar root maharu "be in front", then "confront
one another in battle", comp. Arabic j»tXfij; izib, root 3^W; kar&s-su
stands for kar^s-su according to Assyrisch. Babyl. Keilinsch. 203 note 1.
Kar^su "baggage" (comp. Hebr. K^13~l) is the phonetic equivalent of
the ideogram KI. MAS; see Norris Dictionary 1045; idis adv. from
nri "one"; agammi from agam "swamp", Hebr. DJK; appar^ti
plur. of appartu "reed"; see Delitzsch Parad. p. 97. The word n^r
"river" standing before the first of the two words is to be regarded
as a pure determinative; .irum-ma = irub (Smith's Assurbanipal 5,
24) -|- ma, root ^^y "enter"; itir, root 112^) "shelter", "protect",
comp. the
see Lotz,
corresponding Hebr. root. On the signification of the word
die Inschriften Tiglath-Pileser's I, glossary.—8. is sumbi
designates evidently, as the determinative for wood shows, an object
made of wood , perhaps a car or something of that sort. The word
sumbu is identical with the Hebr. 3^, root 33^, "sedan chair", "litter"
(P. Haupt) ; Y. ud-ri is without doubt a term for some animal of the
flock (Y). Delitzsch Parad. p. 96 conjectures, probably rightly, that
by it the two-humped camels are meant; for the other names for
animals that occur in this passage, see above on Sanherib's Taylor-
cylinder; uruk, root "1")^ "set the battle in array", signifies here
"battle-field"; masar "abandon". In this sense we also find the word
in Smith's Assurb. 210,81 &c.; ikguda katS,ai, see Sanherib's Taylorcylind.
II, 82;— 9. hadis adv., root THH "rejoice"; whence we have
hud, hudut, hidat "joy", see Norris p. 405; irumma, see on line 7;
apti', root HnO = niDD! nisirtu, see on Tayl.-cyl. of Sanherib, HI.
36; unut see Vol. I, p. 192 and footnote***; akartu = hebr. ipi
nin-sum-su, see Delitzsch in Smith's Chald. Genesis (1876) p. 296
note; also comp. Sanh. Tayl. - cylind. Ill, 34—36;— 10. For sasu,
written also s&su (and therefore, as may be conjectured, the follow-
ing saga) see Delitzsch, Lesestiicke 3^^ edit. p. XVI.— The ideogram
NIN is explained in II Rawl. 10, 2. 9. 10 by assatu "woman"—not
to be confounded with the other for bi'ltu "mistress" II Rawl. 7, 19.
On the other hand we find also hiratu, hirtu placed as the equivalent
of this assatu, whence it is clear that both words mean practically the
same thing; sikriti 'palace women'. In the text there stands RAK. UN
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