[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 _a.s.syrian 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.-a.s.syr. Gesch._ p. 88, etc.
[583] Under the same circ.u.mstances.
[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 circ.u.mstances.
[587] Lit., Nergal--the personification of pestilence and death.
[588] Repeated in the text by an error of the scribe.
[589] III R. 60, col. ii. 90 to col. iii. 24.
[590] _I.e._, there will be war. One is reminded of the modern superst.i.tion which a.s.sociates war with the "northern light" in the heavens.
[591] _I.e._, there will be sedition.
[592] So a variant text.
[593] _I.e._, will play havoc with the Inhabitants of the deep.
[594] _I.e._, there will be peace.
[595] See the chapter on "The Temples of Babylonia and a.s.syria."
[596] See Jensen, _Kosmologie der Babylonier_, pp. 134-139.
[597] IIIR. 63.
[598] Lit., "delayed in the heavens."