Archæology and the Bible

by George A. Barton

[576] Translated from Meissner’s Beiträge zum Altbabylonischen Privatrecht, p. 108.

[577] Taken from Macmillan’s translation, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, V, 557, ff.

[578] The sun-god, the god of justice.

[579] Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, p. 231, f. Breasted’s references to the sections of the original text are here omitted.

[580] The Gilgamesh Epic is an early Babylonian poem in twelve tablets or cantos. It is a collection of early legends and myths. The Babylonian account of the flood, translated in [Chapter VI] (Part II), forms the eleventh canto of it.

[581] Translated from the Mitteilungen der vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft, 1902, Heft 1, p. 8.

[582] These are translated from the German rendering in W. Max Müller’s Liebpoesie der alten Ägypter, Leipzig, 1899.

[583] From Müller, p. 15.

[584] Ibid., p. 16.

[585] From Müller, ibid., p. 17.