The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

[891] See, e.g., Jeremias' Izdubar-Nimrod, p. 21.

[892] So, e.g., Hommel (Altisraelitische Ueberlieferung, p. 35). He is certainly not a native of Babylonia.

[893] Gilgamesh.

[894] Haupt, p. 26.

[895] A city Ganganna is mentioned in the first tablet (Haupt, pp. 51, 6).

[896] So Haupt, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, i. 112.

[897] I.e., again and again.

[898] This is the general sense of the three terms used.

[899] I.e., an army's march of fourteen hours. See pp. [490], [503], [521].

[900] The same word appears in incantation texts as a term for a class of demons.