[623] IIIR. 52, no. 3, reverse.

[624] The most extensive publication of omens is Boissier's Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, of which two volumes have appeared. Boissier's method of publication is not altogether satisfactory.

[625] Introduction to the History of Religions, pp. 28-35.

[626] A particularly bad omen. See IIIR. 65, 22, obverse.

[627] Boissler, Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, pp. 110 seq. Boissier has published portions of some twenty tablets of the series, ib. pp. 110-181.

[628] I.e., will not suffer.

[629] The phrase used is obscure. My translation is offered as a conjecture.

[630] I.e., an enemy will keep the land in turmoil.

[631] I.e., like a lion. Elsewhere the preposition 'like' is used.

[632] Where the child is born.