[691] Delitzsch supplies a parallel phrase like "periods elapsed."
[692] Supplied from Damascius' extract of the work of Berosus on Babylonia. See Cory, Ancient Fragments, p. 92; Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 94.
[693] The ô is represented in Babylonian by â, and the ending at in Tiâmat is an affix which stamps the Babylonian name as feminine. T'hôm in Hebrew is likewise a feminine noun, but it should be noted that at a certain stage in the development of the Semitic languages, the feminine is hardly distinguishable from the plural and collective.
[694] Gunkel, Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 29-82, 379-398.
[695] For our purposes it is sufficient to refer for the relations existing between Damascius and the cuneiform records to Smith's Chaldaeische Genesis, pp. 63-66, to Lenormant's Essai de Commentaire sur les fragments Cosmogoniques de Berose, pp. 67 seq., and to Jensen's Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 270-272.
[696] The names are given by Damascius as Apasôn and Tauthe.
[697] Suggested by Professor Haupt (Schrader, Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, p. 7).
[698] Hommel, Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., xviii. 19.
[699] See Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 224, 225.
[700] Agumkakrimi Inscription (VR. 33, iv. 50); Nabonnedos (Cylinder, VR. 64, ll. 16, 17).