Before CHAPTER XXVI.
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Jastrow, Morris
Source notes
[1165] See p. 512.
[1166] See Sara Y. Stevenson, "On Certain Symbols used in the Decoration of Some Potsherds from Daphne and Naukratis" (Philadelphia, 1892), p. 8.
[1167] See above, p. 83.
[1168] 'Eating' appears to be a metaphor for destruction in general.
[1169] The portals (?).
[1170] Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 173 seq.
[1171] Here used as an epithet of the nether world. See above, p. 563.
[1172] Or 'palace.' The lower world, it will be recalled, is pictured as a house or a country. Here the two terms are combined. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 341.
[1173] The phrases used are the ordinary terms of greeting. See, e.g., VR. 65, 17b.
[1174] Gibil-Nusku may be meant. See the hymn, p. 278. Pap-sukal is a title of Nabu (p. 130), but also of other gods.
[1175] Lit., 'liver.'
[1176] For the translation of these lines see Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 233.
[1177] See above, p. 441.
[1178] So Jeremias' Vorstellungen, etc.; see p. 39. Zikutu from the same stem means a 'drinking bowl.'
[1179] A biting of the lips is elsewhere introduced as a figure. See the author's monograph, "A Fragment of the Babylonian Dibbarra Epic," p. 14.
[1180] See Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 341.
[1181] So far as the domestic animals are concerned, it is true that they throw off their young in the spring. The reference to a similar interruption in the case of mankind (see above, p. 571) may embody the recollection of a period when a regular pairing season and breeding time existed among mankind. See Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, pp. 27 seq.
[1182] Allatu.
[1183]I.e., of the dead person.
[1184] Ishtar.
[1185] See p. 475.
[1186]Vorstellungen, pp. 6-8.
[1187] Some instrument is mentioned.
[1188] IVR. 30, no. 3, obverse 23-35.
[1189] The word is explained by a gloss, 'Shamash has made him great.'
[1190]I.e., the month in which one dies.
[1191] See p. 175.
[1192] See pp. 505, 506.
[1193]Vorstellungen, p. 81.
[1194] Psalms, vi. 6.
[1195]L'Enfer Assyrien (Revue Archaeologique, 1879, pp. 337-349). See also Perrot and Chiplez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, I. 349 seq.
[1196] Described by Schell in the Recucil de Travaux, etc., xx. nos. 1 and 2. Schell regards the Zurghul duplicate as older than the other.
[1197] Only four on the Zurghul duplicate.
[1198] For the interpretation of these symbols, see Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, pp. 17-27, and Scheil's article. On the Zurghul tablet there are eight symbols, while the other contains nine.
[1199] See pp. 263, 264. A text IVR. 5, col. i. compares each of the seven spirits to some animal. On the duplicate six demons are placed in the second division and the seventh in the third.
[1200] On the duplicate those two demons do not occur.
[1201] Schell thinks that the face is that of a dog.
[1202] On the Zurghul duplicate the horse is not pictured.
[1203] See p. 529.
[1204] This division is not marked in the duplicate from Zurghul.