[911] Haupt, pp. 45, 53.
[912] Attitude of despair.
[913] I.e., 'offspring of life.' I adopt Delitzsch's reading of the name. Zimmern and Jensen prefer Sitnapishtim, but see Haupt's remarks on the objections to this reading in Schrader, Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament (3d edition) a. l. At the recent Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists, Scheil presented a tablet dealing with the deluge narrative. If his reading is correct, the evidence would be final for the form Pirnapishtim, formerly proposed by Zimmern (Babylonische Busspsalmen, p. 26). See p. [507], [note 1].
[914] "Client of Marduk." The name Marduk appears here under the ideographic designation Tutu. The identification with Marduk may be due to later traditions.
[915] Jeremias' suggestion (Indubar-Nimrod, p. 18) that the fight with the lion belongs to the first tablet, where mention is made of a wild animal of some kind, is not acceptable.
[916] I.e., inner side.
[917] The name of the cave underneath the earth where the dead dwell.
[919] See, e.g., Jeremias' Izdubar-Nimrod, p. 28.
[920] See the passages in Delitzsch, Wo Lag das Paradies, pp. 242, 243.