Ishtar's descent to the lower world.]

---- Chant en Sumerien et en Assyrien sur une epidemie. JA, 7^th Series,
I. 289-293.

[Translation of tablet K 1284 (incantation against Namtar) and
of IIR 19.]

---- Notice sur d'anciennes formules d'Incantation et autres dans une
langue anterieure au Babylonien. JA, 7^th Series, I. 113-122.

[Translation of II Rawl. 17, 18.]

---- Babylonian legends found at Khorsabad. RP XI. 41-44.

[See also translations of various religious texts in 'Expedition
Scientifique en Mesopotamie,' pp. 328-350.]

Peiser, F. E.--Ein Satz in den Beschwoerungsformeln. ZA II. 102, 103.

Pinches, T. G.--An Erechite's Lament. RP, new series, I. 84, 85.

[A penitential psalm with historical references; see also BOR I,
21-23.]

---- The Oracle of Ishtar of Arbela. RP XI. 59-72; also RP, new series,
V. 129-140.

---- Sin-Gashid's Gift to the Temple E-Ana. BOR I. 8-11. See also RP,
new series, I. 78-83.

---- and E. A. W. Budge.--Some New Texts in the Babylonian Character,
relating Principally to the Restoration of Temples. PSBA, 1884. pp.
179-182.

Rawlinson, H. C.--A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of
Western Asia. Vol. IV. 2d ed. revised (and with additions) by T. G.
Pinches. (London 1891.)

[This fourth volume of the publications of tablets in the
British Museum is almost exclusively devoted to religious texts.
In the other volumes some texts of this character will be found
as follows: Vol. II. pls. 17-19, incantations; 51-61, names and
titles of gods and temples; miscellaneous. Vol. III. pls. 61-65,
astronomical and astrological reports, omen tablets and
portents; 66-69, lists and titles of gods and temples;
miscellaneous. Vol. V. pl. 31, omen tablets (with explanations);
43, titles of Nebo, etc.; 46, No. 2, lists of gods and their
epithets; 47, prayer (with commentary); 48, 49, religious
calendar; 50, 51, hymn to Shamash. Note also that many of the
historical tests in Vols. I.-V. contain invocations to gods.]

Reisner, George.--Sumerisch-Babylonische Hymnen nach Thontafeln
Griechischer Zeit. (Berlin 1896.) Koenigliche Museen zu Berlin.
Mittheilungen aus den Orientalischen Sammlungen No. X.

Sayce, A. H.--Accadian Hymn to Istar. RP I. 155-160.

---- Accadian Poem on the Seven Evil Spirits. _Ib._ IX. 144-148.

---- An Accadian Liturgy. _Ib._ III. 125-130.

---- An Accadian Penitential Hymn. _I