[50] Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions I, 1 No. 26.
[51] Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestücke, p. 88, VI, 2–3. Cf. also CT XXV, 28(K 7659) 3, where we must evidently supply [Esigga]-tuk, for which in the following line we have again Gish-bil-ga-mesh as an equivalent. See Meissner, OLZ 1910, 99.
[52] See, e.g., Barton, Haverford Collection II No. 27, Col. I, 14, etc.
[53] Deimel, Pantheon Babylonicum, p. 95.
[54] CT XII, 50 (K 4359) obv. 17.
[55] See Barton, Origin and Development of Babylonian Writing, II, p. 99 seq., for various explanations, though all centering around the same idea of the picture of fire in some form.
[56] See the passages quoted by Poebel, Historical and Grammatical Texts, p. 126.
[57] E.g., Genesis 4, 20, Jabal, “the father of tent-dwelling and cattle holding;” Jubal (4, 21), “the father of harp and pipe striking.”
[58] See particularly the plays (in the J. Document) upon the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, which are brought forward either as tribal characteristics, or as suggested by some incident or utterance by the mother at the birth of each son.
[59] The designation is variously explained by Arabic writers. See Beidhawi’s Commentary (ed. Fleischer), to Súra 18, 82.