52 I have bid them take gold, silver, gold and silver vessels, precious stones, copper, iron, considerable products of mountains the mines of which are rich, cloth of _berom_ and cotton, blue and purple cloth, amber, skins of sea-calves, pearls, sandal-wood, ebony, horses from higher Egypt,[51] asses, mules, camels, oxen. With all these numerous tributes I have rejoiced the heart of the gods. 53 May Assur, the father of the gods, bless these palaces, by giving to his images a spontaneous splendor. May he watch over the issue even to the remote future. May the sculptured bull, the protector and god who imparts perfection, dwell in day and in night-time in his presence, and never stir from this threshold! 54 With the help of Assur, may the King who has built these palaces, attain an old age, and may his offspring multiply greatly! May these battlements last to the most remote future! May he who dwells there come forth surrounded with the greatest splendor; may he rejoice in his corporal health, in the satisfaction of his heart accomplish his wishes, attain his end, and may he render his magnificence seven times more imposing! [Footnote 1: Orchoé, the Erech of the Bible, is certainly the Warka of the present day; Sippara, Sofeira; Nipur, Niffar; Larsam, Senkereh. Ur (the Ur of the Bible) is Mugheir; Kullab and Erikhi are unknown. (See "Expéd. en Mésopot.," i. p. 255 et seq.)] [Footnote 2: The old empire Bal-bat-ki. The syllabaries explain this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere. I therefore transcribe "Sumer," which was the true name of the people and the language named wrongly Accadian. The term of "Sumerian" is supported by MM. Ménant, Eneberg, Gelzer, Prætorius, Delitzsch, Olshausen, and other scholars.] [Footnote 3: "Itanus," or Yatnan, in the island of Crete, became afterward the name of the island of Cyprus.] [Footnote 4: For the words in italics no satisfactory translation has as yet been found.] [Footnote 5: The "Pekod" of the Bible (Jer. i. 21; Ezek. xxiii. 23).] [Footnote 6: Which belongs to Elam.] [Footnote 7: Lower Chaldea. Nearly all the names of the Elamite towns are Semitic (see Gen. x. 22), but the Susian ones are not.] [Footnote 8: Tiglatpileser, whom Sargon would not acknowledge.] [Footnote 9: This is the word "siltan," the Hebrew "shilton" ("power"), the Arabic "sultan."] [Footnote 10: Raphia, near the frontier of Egypt.] [Footnote 11: Khilakku. It seems to be identical with the "Sparda" of Persian, the "Sepharad" of Obadiah.] [Footnote 12: The condition of Jaubid before his accession.] [Footnote 13: Or Minni.] [Footnote 14: It seems not to be Paphos.] [Footnote 15: Parthia(?).] [Footnote 16: The same name as Belshazzar.] [Footnote 17: This Agag is very possibly the country of Haman the Agagite, if we must not read Agaz.]