[53] Perhaps the knob of a sceptre. Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. viii. 68.
[54] E.g., Hammurabi (Revue d'Assyriologie, ii. col. i. 21); but also Gudea and a still earlier king.
[55] So Amlaud; and there seems some reason to believe that the name was used by the side of Utu, though perhaps only as an epithet.
[56] Compare birbiru, 'sheen,' and the stem barû, 'to see,' etc.
[57] See Keils Bibl. 3, I, 100. Reading of name uncertain.
[58] Suggested by Rawlinson, ii. 57, 10. See Schrader, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 33 seq.
[59] On Sippar, see Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, etc., 168-169, who finds in the Old Testament form "Sepharvayim" a trace of this double Sippar. Dr. Ward's suggestion, however, in regard to Anbar, as representing this 'second' Sippar, is erroneous.
[60] E.g., in Southern Arabia. See W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, I. 59.
[61] In Rabbinical literature, the moon is compared to a 'heifer' (Talmud Babli Rosh-hashana 22 b).
[62] That the name of Sin should have been introduced into Mesopotamia through the 'Arabic' dynasty (see above, p. [39]) is less probable, though not impossible in the light of recent discoveries.