[861] Old Babylonian Inscription, i. 2, p. 48.
[862] IIR. 50, 55-57; VR. 41, 17, 18. An interesting reference to the wall of Frech occurs Hilprecht, ib. i. 1, no. 26.
[863] Kosmologie, p. 172.
[864] Jeremias' Izdubar-Nimrod, p. 15, conjectures that the death of the king has evoked distress, but that is highly improbable. That the fragment under consideration belongs to the beginning of the epic is tolerably certain, though not absolutely so.
[865] Sixth tablet, l. 192. He brings offerings to Lugal-Marada, i.e., the king of Marada—a solar deity. See p. [486].
[866] Heuzey, Sceaux inédits des Rois d'Agade (Revue d'Assyriologie, iv. 3, p. 9).
[868] Anu here used in the generic sense of 'lofty,' 'divine.' The phrase is equivalent to the Biblical 'image of God.'
[869] A phrase in some way again indicative of Eabani's likeness to a deity.
[870] That Gilgamesh undertakes this, and not the gods acting in the interest of Uruk (as Jeremias and others assume), follows from a passage in Haupt's edition, pp. 10, 40.