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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

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[548] Illustrated by the four volumes of Bezold's Catalogue of the Koujunjik, Collection of the British Museum (London, 1889-96).
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[549]Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 221 seq.
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[557] What the station of this official was we are not told.
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[559] Lit., 'true speech in the mouth of the people,' i.e., there will be no sedition.
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[562] Are not seen at the same time.
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[567] This appears to be the unusual occurrence involved.
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[570]I.e., contrary to calculation.
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[572] Favorable to Elam (so Oppert translates).
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[577] Some palace official is mentioned.
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[578]E.g., IIIR. 52, no. 2; 60 and 61. Professor Craig of the University of Michigan is now preparing for publication all the fragments of this series. (See his Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, ii. 7.)
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[579] IIIR. 60. The first eleven lines are broken off.
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[580]I.e., of the night. The night, it will be recalled, was divided into three watches of four hours each.
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[581] Lit., a 'divine decision (or oracle) is given.'
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[582] An island near the head of the Persian Gulf, often referred to in the historical texts. See Tiele, Babyl.-Assyr. Gesch. p. 88, etc.
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[583] Under the same circumstances.
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[584] Lit., 'cattle'; but cattle appears to be used for 'property' in general, just as our English word 'chattel.'
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[586] Under the same circumstances.
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[587] Lit., Nergal—the personification of pestilence and death.

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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Project Gutenberg eBook #20758

Omens From Individual Experiences. THE COSMOLOGY OF THE BABYLONIANS.