[1201] Schell thinks that the face is that of a dog.
[1202] On the Zurghul duplicate the horse is not pictured.
[1204] This division is not marked in the duplicate from Zurghul.
[1205] Not occurring on the duplicate.
[1206] Scheil questions whether the divisions have this purpose. While perhaps not much stress is laid by the artist upon this symbolism, its existence can hardly be questioned. Note the five divisions of the universe in Smith's Miscellaneous Texts, p. 16. The water certainly represents the Apsu. Allatu rests upon the bark. We do not find among the Babylonians (as Scheil supposes) the view that the dead are conveyed across a sheet of water to the nether world. The dead are buried, and by virtue of this fact enter Aralû, which is in the earth. Egyptian influence is possible, but unlikely.
[1207] IVR. 26, no. 1.
[1208] I.e., the nether world.
[1209] IVR. 30, no. 1; obverse 5, 14.
[1210] See Jensen's valuable articles, "The Queen in the Babylonian Hades and her Consort," in the Sunday School Times, March 13 and 20, 1897. The text is published, Winckler and Abel, Der Thontafelfund von El-Amarna, iii. 164, 165.