[115] For an admirable reproduction of the best half of the Balâwât Gates, a good introduction, and translation of text, cf. Birch and Pinches, The Bronze Ornaments of the Palace Gates of Balâwât. Cf. also Delitzsch, Beiträge zur Assyriologie.

[116] For translation, cf. Ungnad, Or. Lit., IX (1906), 534-8.

[117] Cf. Delitzsch, Records of the Past, 1903, pp. 323 ff.

[118] Cf. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, p. 129.

[119] Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, p. 14.

[120] Cf. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, pp. 54, 99.

[121] Cf. Perrot and Chipiez, p. 277.

[122] Layard, Nineveh I, p. 64; II, pp. 306, 307.

[123] Layard, Nineveh, II, p. 15.

[124] Ibid., I, p. 130.