The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[583] Under the same circumstances.

[584] Lit., 'cattle'; but cattle appears to be used for 'property' in general, just as our English word 'chattel.'

[585] 5th month.

[586] Under the same circumstances.

[587] Lit., Nergal—the personification of pestilence and death.

[588] Repeated in the text by an error of the scribe.

[589] III R. 60, col. ii. 90 to col. iii. 24.

[590] I.e., there will be war. One is reminded of the modern superstition which associates war with the 'northern light' in the heavens.

[591] I.e., there will be sedition.

[592] So a variant text.