[14] A constellation which rose heliacally in Marchesvan or October. The word means “Dog of death.”
[15] Compare Jer. li. 34.
[16] This is the reading of the original Accadian text. The Assyrian translation has, “was his establisher.”
[17] Itak had his worshippers as well as Dibbara. Thus an Accadian seal in the possession of Dr. Huggins bears a legend stating that it belonged to “Ruru-lukh, the servant of Itak, the street-traverser.” The god is represented on this seal as a man in a flounced dress, to whom a kid is being offered, and is symbolized by two animals one of which looks like a locust, the other like a monkey.
[18] Another copy of the legend reads “lover.”
[19] Literally, “a thing hung up.”
[20] Or “bull of heaven.” It was a constellation, perhaps Taurus.
[21] “Joy” and “Seduction.”
[22] A great necropolis seems to have existed in Cutha.
[23] Literally “precious stones.”