[306] IR. 8, no. 3, ll. 5 seq.

[307] See above, p. [126].

[308] E.g., Tiglathpileser III., Nimrud inscription (Layard, pl. 17, l. 12).

[309] Obelisk, l. 5.

[310] Rassam Cylinder, col. i. l. 45.

[311] Delitzsch (Das Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 99) questions whether Nu-gim-mud (or Nu-dim-mud) was originally a designation of Ea. Nu-dim-mud being an epithet might, of course, be applied to other gods, but there can be no doubt that it was used to designate more particularly Ea as the artificer. See my remarks, pp. [138], [177] seq.

[312] Meissner-Rost, Bauinscriften Sanherib's, p. 105.

[313] Cylinder, l. 48, ideographically as Nin-men-an-na, 'lady of the heavenly crown.' In the parallel passage, however, as Lyon (Sargontexte, p. 71) points out, Belit ilâni is used.

[314] Cylinder, l. 70.

[315] Cylinder, l. 68.