[173] Arising perhaps after Im came into use as the ideographic form.

[174] Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., xi. 173-174 and pl. 1, col. i. 7.

[175] See p. [145] and also p. [161].

[176] Belser in Haupt and Delitzsch, Beiträge sur Assyriologie, ii. 187 seq., col. vi. i. 3 seq.

[177] The character of this part of the hymn is quite different from that which precedes.

[178] For further notices of these gods, see [chapter x].

[179] See above, p. [122].

[180] One might include in the list also Nin-igi-nangar-bu, Gushgin-banda, Nin-kurra, Nin-zadim (from Nabubaliddin's Inscription), but these are only so many epithets of Ea or various forms under which the god came to be worshipped. See p. [177].

[181] We may now look forward to finding many more gods in the rich material for this period unearthed by the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Niffer.

[182] See [chapter x].