[653] IIIR. 65, no. 2, obverse.

[654] Of the master.

[655] Lit., 'cut off.'

[656] Of the owner.

[657] The wife of the owner of the mare appears to be meant.

[658] See above, p. [138].

[659] See Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, chapters vi.-ix.

[660] Robertson Smith; Religion of the Semites, pp. 143, 273.

[661] Lenormant, Choix des Textes Cuneiformes, no. 89; Boissier, Documents, etc., p. 104.

[662] I.e., the ruler of the palace.