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Source notes
[548] Illustrated by the four volumes of Bezold's Catalogue of the Koujunjik, Collection of the British Museum (London, 1889-96).
[549]Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 221 seq.
[550]E.g., IIIR. 51.
[551]Ib. no. 1.
[552] The 1st month of the year.
[553] IIIR. 51. no. 2.
[554]Ib. no. 3.
[555] IIIR. 51, no. 9.
[556]Ib. no. 7.
[557] What the station of this official was we are not told.
[558] IIIR. 58, no. 7.
[559] Lit., 'true speech in the mouth of the people,' i.e., there will be no sedition.
[560] IIIR. 58, no. 7.
[561]Ib. no. 6.
[562] Are not seen at the same time.
[563] His decision will be wise.
[564] Safe from attacks.
[565] IIIR. 58, no. 13.
[566]Ib. no. 12.
[567] This appears to be the unusual occurrence involved.
[568] See above, pp. 281, 332.
[569] IIIR. 58, no. 14.
[570]I.e., contrary to calculation.
[571] The shadow.
[572] Favorable to Elam (so Oppert translates).
[573] 9th month.
[574] IIIR. 51, no. 5.
[575] 11th month.
[576] IIIR. 59, no. 13.
[577] Some palace official is mentioned.
[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.)
[579] IIIR. 60. The first eleven lines are broken off.
[580]I.e., of the night. The night, it will be recalled, was divided into three watches of four hours each.
[581] Lit., a 'divine decision (or oracle) is given.'
[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.
[583] Under the same circumstances.
[584] Lit., 'cattle'; but cattle appears to be used for 'property' in general, just as our English word 'chattel.'
[585] 5th month.
[586] Under the same circumstances.
[587] Lit., Nergal—the personification of pestilence and death.