[734] Roscher, Lexikon, s.v. Indigitamenta. Muto is 'phallos.'
[735] So Augustine, De Civitate Dei, iv, II, 34 al.
[736] S. Seligmann, Der böse Blick und Verwandtes, ii, 196 ff.
[737] Cf. Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 490, n. 4.
[738] On the yoni as amulet see Seligmann, Der böse Blick und Verwandtes, ii, 203.
[739] Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii, 491 f., and the references there to Gait's Assam and other works.
[740] III Rawlinson, pl. i, no. 12155, and IV Rawlinson, col. 2, II. 25-28. The androgynous sense is maintained by G. A. Barton, in Journal Of the American Oriental Society, xxi, second half, p. 185 ff. Other renderings of the first inscription are given by Thureau-Dangin in Revue d'Assyriologie, iv, and Radau, Early Babylonian History, p. 125.
[741] Text in Craig, Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, i, pl. vii, obv. 6, and by Meek, in American Journal of Semitic Languages, xxvi; translation in Jastrow's Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens, i, 544 f., and discussion by him in article "The 'Bearded' Venus" in Revue archéologique, 1911, i.
[742] See for Lenormant's view Gazette archéologique, 1876 and 1879, and Jastrow's criticism in the article cited in the preceding note.
[743] Lajard, Recherches sur le culte de Vénus. He is followed by A. Jeremias, The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East (Eng. tr.), i, 123.