[603] Tablet defective.

[604] Text erroneously 'one month.'

[605] See above, p. [183].

[606] See Ihering, Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 182 seq.

[607] See The Golden Bough, passim.

[608] IV Rawlinson, pls. 32, 33.

[609] I.e., the Intercalated Elul. After the 6th month (Elul) and after the 12th (Adar), a month was intercalated at certain intervals in order to bring the solar and lunar years into conjunction.

[610] Lit., 'raising of his hand to a god'—the attitude in prayer.

[611] Text erroneously 'mistress.'

[612] Here and elsewhere Ishtar is used in a generic sense for 'chief goddess'; in the present case Sarpanitum. See above, pp. 82, 151, 206.