1. Craig, Religious Texts, I, plates 29-31; published and translated by Brünnow, Assyrian Hymns, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, IV, 246-248 and V, 58-66, 77-78; translated by Martin, Textes religieux Assyriens et Babyloniens, and by Jastrow, I, 513. The hymn consists of thirty-eight lines, and is followed by the petition that the anger of the god may abate and favor be shown the suppliant.
2. K 3459; Hehn, Hymnen und Gebete an Marduk, in Beitrage zur Assyriologie, V, 278-400. The poem is in three columns. Of column I, seven lines out of twenty are preserved entire. Of the twenty-one lines of column II, twelve are missing, and no single line is complete. Columns I and III are in praise of Marduk, while column II seeks forgiveness of sin and deliverance of a sufferer from trouble.
3. K 3505; The first seventeen lines of a hymn are addressed directly to Marduk. The text then breaks off.
4. King, Tablets of Creation, I, 204 ff; Craig, Religious Texts, I, Plate 43; Hehn, No. 5; Jastrow, I, 496ff. The first twenty-one lines of a hymn are in praise of Marduk. The text then breaks off. In the hymnal portion the third person of the verb is used.
5. R. IV: 2, 26 No. 4; translated by Jastrow, I, 496; also by Jeremias in Roscher’s Lexicon, II, col. 2367; also by Hehn, No. 6. Nine lines of a hymn in praise of Marduk, the God of War, are preserved. The text then breaks off.
6. R. IV: 2, 29, No. 1; translated by Jastrow, I, 501; also by Fossey, La Magie assyrienne, pages 364-369; also by Jeremias in Roscher’s Lexicon, II, col. 2355; also by Hehn, No. 7. It is a hymn twenty-nine lines in length, of definite strophic arrangement, addressed directly to Marduk, and followed by exorcisms of various demons.
7. R. IV: 2, 18, No. 1; translated by Hehn, No. 12. It is a fragment of eight lines, referring to the founding of Babylon and the temple of Marduk.
8. R. IV: 2, 21, No. 1; also King, Babylonian Magic, No. 9; translated by King; by Hehn, No. 13; also by Jastrow, I, 500f. Though characterized by King and Jastrow as a prayer, yet the first nine lines, constituting the invocation to the god may be regarded as hymnal material. The body of the prayer consists of seventeen lines, and may well be from a king, seeking health and the favor and support of his god.
9. R. IV: 2, 57; translated by King No. 12; by Hehn No. 14; by Jastrow, I, 499; by Lenormant, La Divination, page 212ff; by Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, pages 536ff. This tablet is concerned with the curing by Marduk’s help of a sick man. The first sixteen lines give directions for the ceremonies to be performed. The priest is instructed to hold the hand of the sick man, and repeat the prayer, lines 17-94. Of these lines 17-44 are hymnal, serving as an invocation to the prayer. Following the prayer there are directions for further ceremonies. The hymn is in the second person addressed directly to the god.
10. K 8961; Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, I, Pl. 59; translated by Hehn, No. 17; also by Jastrow, I, 497. An incantation hymn, of which only twelve lines remain, is addressed directly to Marduk as an invocation to prayer.