[809] The Greek name for the letters of the alphabet—symbolon, i.e., a "likeness"—illustrates the same view of the pictorial origin of writing.

[810] For illustrations, see Lenomant, Magie und Wahrsagekunst der Chaldaer, pp. 520-523.

[811] See the summary on pp. 198, 199, of Delitzsch, Ursprung der Keilschriftzeichen.

[812] See p. [436].

[813] Epping and Strassmaier, Astronomisches aus Babylon (Freiburg, 1889).

[814] Kosmologie, pp. 57-95. See especially the summary, pp. 82-84.

[815] See p. [89].

[816] See p. [48].

[817] On this ideograph, see Jensen, Kosmologie pp. 43, 44.

[818] Kosmologie, p. 134.