Literature, Ashurbanabal's library, [132];
syllabaries, [135];
religious l., [12], [13], [213], [216], [233], [245], [247], [690]-1;
temple records, [165];
legal documents, [165]-6;
connection betw. religion and literature, [245], [691];
historical texts, [246];
uncertain demarcation betw. religious and secular l., [247];
epics, see [Gilgamesh], [Eabani], [Adapa];
compound of popular belief and of theology, [689].
Local cults, origin of, [49];
confusion with nature cult, [49]-50;
growth of, [49];
policy of preservation of local cults by foreign conquerors, [69]-70, [106], [111];
confusion of (female) local cults, [80];
prominence given to local gods as compared with others, [111];
local cult features and general cult features compared, [110];
survival of local cults, [113];
factors obscuring local cults, [113]-5;
political factors, [113];
popular factors, [114];
theological factors, [114];
absorption, [114], [168], [171];
number of, [170], [234], [274];
in lists, [233];
of the Ass. pantheon, [234];
importance diminishes, [235].
Loftus, William K., excavations, [9].
Lofty and Brilliant Wall, name of temple, [641].
Lot, bears more resemblance to Parnapishtim than Noah, [507].
Lugal-banda, god, [51];
temple at Uruk, [95];
local character, [95];
identification with Nergal, [95];
signification of name, [95].
Lugal-edinna, epithet of Nergal, [172], [280].
Lugal-erima (?), god, [51];
his local character, [97];
interpretation of name, [97].
Lugal-gira, epithet of Nergal, [172], [280].
Lugal-ki-mu-na, in proper names of the 2d Bab. period, [169].