FOOTNOTES:
[AC] "La Magie et la Divination chez les Chaldéens," 1874-5. German translation of it, 1878.
[AD] Alfred Maury, "La Magie et l'Astrologie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-âge." Introduction, p. 1.
[AE] "Ud" not being a proper name, but the name of the sun in the language of Shumir and Accad, it can be rendered in translation by "Sun," with a capital.
[AF] Another and more recent translator renders this line: "God who knowest I knew not." Whichever rendering is right, the thought is beautiful and profound.
[AG] This hymn is given by H. Zimmern, as the text to a dissertation on the language and grammar.
