[519] Lehman, Samassumukin, p. 42.

[520] See Ploss, Das Weib, pp. 594-606; also above, p. [267].

[521] IVR. pl. 61.

[522] I.e., Ishtar sends the wind with a clear message.

[523] 3d month.

[524] Perhaps a proverbial phrase, having the force of 'I nurture thee as thy own mother did.'

[525] Constituting the host of Ishtar, which is elsewhere referred to, e.g., IVR. 2d Ed. pt. 61, col. i. 27.

[526] Lit., 'the future or later things like the former.'

[527] Published by S. A. Strong, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, ii. 627-33.

[528] The opening lines, containing a reference to the Gimirrites, are imperfectly preserved.