[663] Lit., 'dark colored.'

[664] 'Not,' perhaps omitted.

[665] Boissier, p. 103.

[666] By vomiting on him.

[667] Out of which one eats.

[668] I.e., keep away from it.

[669] See p. 182.

[670] According to Hilprecht (Old Babylonian Inscriptions, I. part 2, p. 35), 'a goose or similar water-bird' was originally pictured by the sign, though he admits that the picture was 'later' used for swallow.

[671] Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 451-55.

[672] The term used is Unagga, Bezold's Catalogue of the Koujunjik Collection, p. 1841. See Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 153.