[159.3] Jastrow, op. cit., p. 536. For the idea of the goddess as the pleader for man before the high god, cf. the prayer of Ashurbanapal to Ninlil (Jastrow, p. 525).

[159.4] Zimmern, op. cit., p. 15; ib., p. 11.

[159.5] Jastrow, op. cit., p. 200.

[160.1] Il., 9, 497; cf. my Cults, i. pp. 72-73, 75-77.

[160.2] Vide Jeremias in Roscher’s Lexikon, ii. p. 2355.

[160.3] Langdon, op. cit., p. 225.

[160.4] Jastrow, op. cit., p. 490.

[160.5] Ib., p. 529.

[160.6] Langdon, op. cit., p. 3.

[161.1] Langdon, op. cit., p. 319.