[1581] Not necessarily 'music festival,' as Delitzsch proposes (Assyr. Handw., p. 447a).
[1582] For examples, see the Assyrian contract tablets translated by Peiser, Keils Bibl. iv. 98 and passim.
[1583] See the passage Shalmanaser obelisk, ll. 174, 175, and Peiser's comment, Keils Bibl. iv. 106, note.
[1584] Burton, A Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, iii. chapter vii.
[1587] Rassam Cylinder, col. iv. ll. 86-89.
[1588] VR. 61, col. ii. ll. 22-27.
[1589] Ea and Marduk, it will be recalled, are the chief gods invoked in magic rites involving purification. See pp. [275], [276].