[1031] Harper, pp. 392-394.
[1032] _I.e._, one cannot escape from Shamash, since he traverses all s.p.a.ce.
[1033] A personification of the storm. See below, pp. 537 _seq._ The line is very obscure owing to the break in the tablet.
[1034] So Harper, but see pp. 541, 542.
[1035] _I.e._, he will dig his beak into the juicy part of the meat.
[1036] Of the carca.s.s.
[1037] As shown by the colophon of K. 2606, and also by the fact that K.
1547, which contains on the obverse the tale, contains on the reverse Etana"s prayer to Shamash.
[1038] De la Saussaye"s _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_ (2nd edition), i. 218.
[1039] See above, p. 195.
[1040] Perrot and Chiplez, _History of Art in Sardinia, Phoenicia, Judea, Syria, and Asia Minor_, ii. 176.
[1041] Pinches, _Babylonian and a.s.syrian Cylinders, etc., of Sir Henry Peak_, no. 18. _Cf._ Harper, _ib._ p. 408.
[1042] A lexicographical tablet, IIR. 56, col. iii. 22-35, mentions four dogs of Marduk.
[1043] See p. 232.
[1044] See Harper, _ib._ p. 426.
[1045] The _ra_ is either a phonetic complement to the ideograph or is perhaps added to suggest to the reader the identification with Gir-ra.
[1046] Namely, the connection with Hebrew _deber_, "pestilence." _Cf._ Harper, _ib._ p. 426.
[1047] Babylon.
[1048] Text obscure. "Sharpen badly" seems to be the idiomatic phrase used.
[1049] See above, p. 154.
[1050] See p. 475.
[1051] A solar deity. See p. 99.
[1052] Ishum.
[1053] See above, p. 501.
[1054] _I.e._, seven. A collective personification of the seven evil spirits.
[1055] Ishum.
[1056] IIR. 51, 19c and 4a. Khashur is also used as a name for the cedar. See Delitzsch, _a.s.syr. Handworterbuch_, p. 295a.
[1057] The one published by the writer.
[1058] Hammurabi is the conqueror of Palestine mentioned in Gen. xlv.
under the name Amraphel. See, _e.g._, Hommel, _Altisraelitische Ueberlieferung_, p. 106.
[1059] Num. xxi. 14. The "song of Deborah" (Judges, v.) belongs to this collection. For further specimens of Babylonian war-songs, see Hommel, _ib._ pp. 180-190,--all dealing with the memorable Hammurabi period.
[1060] K. 1282, Harper, _ib._, pp. 432 _seq._, and King"s fragment, _Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, xl. 60, 61.
[1061] The G.o.ds of vegetation are mentioned.
[1062] _I.e._, give wisdom to the one who honors me.
[1063] Text "Dibbarra."
[1064] See above, p. 114.
[1065] As Mr. King has shown (_Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie_, xi. 53).
See above, p. 269.
[1066] Deut. vi. 9.
[1067] See p. 483.
[1068] See p. 263.
[1069] See p. 525.
[1070] See p. 420, 428.
[1071] See pp. 439 _seq._
[1072] _I.e._, En-lil"s.
[1073] _I.e._, "the bond of heaven and earth," the name probably of a temple-tower in Nippur, sacred to En-lil.
[1074] Zu"s heart. These two lines are repeated.
[1075] The word _Kissu_ applies more especially to the dwelling places of the G.o.ds. Delitzsch, _a.s.syr. Handworterbuch_, p. 349b.
[1076] Zu.
[1077] See _e.g._, Ward, _Seal Cylinders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art_, p. 12.
[1078] Ramman.