our 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.
[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
superstition which associates 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 Assyria."
[596] See Jensen, _
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