The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

[668]I.e., keep away from it.

[669] See p. 182.

[670] According to Hilprecht (Old Babylonian Inscriptions, I. part 2, p. 35), 'a goose or similar water-bird' was originally pictured by the sign, though he admits that the picture was 'later' used for swallow.

[671]Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 451-55.

[672] The term used is Unagga, Bezold's Catalogue of the Koujunjik Collection, p. 1841. See Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 153.

[673] Bezold, Catalogue, p. 1710.

[674] Boissier, Documents, etc., pp. 3, 4.

[675] Bezold, Catalogue, pp. 1437, 1438.

[676] Bezold, ib. p. 918.

[677]I.e., over him.

[678] Chapter ii. 4-6.

[679] Chapter ii. 31-35, and vii. 2-12.