The Legend of Mar Qardagh : Joel Walker
Footnote
A. Salveson, ?The Legacy of Babylon and Nineveh in Aramaic Sources,? in The Legacy of Mesopotamia, ed. S. Dalley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 151?52. The original excavator marveled over this remarkable continuity in cultic architecture. See W. Andrae, Das wiedererstandene Assur (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs Verlag, 1938; 2d rev. ed., Munich: Verlag C. H.Beck, 1977), 254: ?Es ist fast wunderbar, zu sehen, wie genau sich die alte Gestalt dieses [Assyrian temple] offenbar g?nzlich dem Erdboden gleichgemachten Kultbaues wieder erhob.? For the inscriptions to the god Assur and his consort ?Sherua,? see B. Aggoula, Inscriptions et graffites aram?ens d?Assour (Naples: Istituto universitario orientale, 1985), 41?43 (nos. 17?20). Other finds in the Parthian level at Assur also testify to the survival of the ancient Assyrian cults. For the graffito showing a Parthian nobleman sacrificing before a statue of Nanai, ?the daughter of Bel, the master of the gods,? see Aggoula, Inscriptions et graffites aram?ens, 37?41; Andrae, Assur, 259?60 (fig. 239).