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SECOND BOOK OF KINGS XX. 37
inhabitants of his land, 59. I carried away from the land
Beth-Jakln amid swamps and sedge, 60. made them pri-
soners. His towns I destroyed, 61. laid waste, transformed
into fields. In his ally, 62. the Elamite, I inspired terror.
63. On my return I raised ASurnadinSum, the illustrious
son , 64. the offspring of my knees, to the throne of his
[Merodach - Baladan'sJ rule. 65. The broad land Sumlr
and Akkad I made subject to him."
Notes and Illustrations. 49. The phrase pan nirija utir, occurs
in other passages (comp. in this same inscription II, 7). It is derived 352
from the idea of ploughing, and properly means :— "cause the yoke
(oxen) to turn (utir) its face to the plougher" i. e. to turn round;
50. assabat harrauu, see on Botta 151, 10. 4 (on Is. XX. 1);—53.
uparrir Pa. of ^"]Q ; illatu from ^pj "military force", according to
Lotz 124 a word borrowed from the Akkadian; rigim = Qil;— 54.
izzu = ]JJ ; itur "dread" (root *1lOy '); ^^- nia§al is obscure; per-
haps = ^\l)^ "dominion" and then "protection"? Kiku denotes un-
questionably a receptacle, tent or apparatus in which the images of
the gods were preserved or transported, hence "shrine", see Norris
552; idki from dakii "assemble", "present", also in Asarhaddon's
inscription on Aberdeen's black stone col. III. 2 (I Rawl. 49 );
ilippu, likewise in Aramaic signifies "ship"; ideogram interpreted in
Assyr. Babyl. Keilinsch. 26 No. 20; — 56. usarkib Shafel of 33-)
rakSbu;— 57. kabal "midst" ^3p, in this particular case written, as
it rarely is, phonetically; issfiris = kima issfiri (comp. 'H^OJ^,
.j^xac) ; ipparis Nif. of tjnO (Hebr tJ/"lO) "spread oneself over a
country", "flee"; 58. umasir = umas§ir Cylind. of Bellino line 8;
— 59. comp. Cylinder of Bellino line 7;— 60. abbul, root ^23;~6I.
aggur, akkur, root ")JJ, "ipj; karmi = '^3 "hill", "heap" see above
p. 228, Vol. I; the word is accus. of effect; salim is here employed
in the sense of "peace", "friendship"; bi'l salimi = n^"l3 h]}^ Gen.
XIV, 13; 62. namurrat root "mj. For the pronunciation see Norris
1041;—atbuk from n^j^ "pour or empty out" (Hoerning, Lotz); comp.
the Hebr. "I^J;— 63. taiartu from t4ru, meaning properly "turn in a
circle"; comp. "1")"]; then it signifies "return to the starting-point";
thus in col. IV. 35 &c. We have the verb t&ru in the sense of 'return'
e. g. in Assurbanipal's inscription quoted in Oppert's L'Egypte et
I'Assyrie 1869, p. 59, line 1;
—
—
ri'stu from ti''{