The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[633] A solar deity; see above, p. 99. Reference to minor deities are frequent in these omen texts.

[634] The reference appears to be to some misfortune that will be brought about through the solar deity Gilgamesh.

[635] Boissier, Documents, etc., pp. 118-120.

[636] I.e., only two.

[637] Between the two heads, I.e., the hands and feet are misplaced.

[638] IIIR. 65, no. 1.

[639] Abnormally small.

[640] I.e., the father or master.

[641] The Egyptians carried the observation and interpretation of omens to quite as high a degree as the Babylonians and Assyrians. See, e.g., Chabas, Mélanges Égyptologiques, 3^e série, tome ii.; Wiedemann's Religion of Ancient Egypt, p. 263.

[642] Lenormant, Choix des Textes Cuneiformes, no. 87.