[991] Lit., 'good.'
[992] Utukku—the name, it will be recalled, given to a class of demons. See p. [260].
[994] Haupt, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, i. 318, 319, has made it plausible that pp. 16-19 of his edition belong to the twelfth tablet of the epic, though perhaps to a different edition of the epic, as Jeremias suggests (Izdubar-Nimrod, p. 43).
[996] Haupt's edition, pp. 67, 12.
[997] Lit., 'thou hast seen it, I have seen it.'
[998] Text defective. Jeremias conjectures "kneeling."
[999] Ekimmu, another name for a class of demons. See p. [260].
[1000] The correct translation of these lines we owe to Haupt (Beiträge zur Assyriologie, i. 69, 70).