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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

CHAPTER IV
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The second element in Pap-sukal is the common Babylonian word for 'servant,' or 'messenger;' other deities therefore standing in a subsidiary position are also called Pap-sukal.
So _e.g._, Nebo and Nusku.

See further on and compare Hommel, _Semiten_, pp.

479, 480.
[83] Inscription B, col iii.

2.
[84] Uru-kagina, earlier than Gudea (de Sarzec, pl.32), appears to have built a temple to Dun-shagga, but the passage is not altogether clear.
The element also appears in the name of the ruler of Ur, _Dungi_, _i.e._, 'the legitimate hero,' as Sargon is the 'legitimate king.' [85] Signifying, according to Jensen, _Keils Bibl._ 3, 1, p.

25, 'fighting-place'.
[86] Published by Delitzsch, _Beitraege zur Assyr._ I.301-311.
[87] So also Jensen, _Kosmologie_, p.


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