16'6 THEO. G. PINCHES, ESQ., NOTES UPON SOME OF THE 



Page 125. The god E-Girsu seems to have been named 

 after the city Girsu, mentioned in the text here quoted. 

 The principal temple seems to have been called simply 

 J^y -»v ^yy, Eairsu, which is explained (80-6-17, 1024) as 

 the temple of E-Girsu ("the Lord of Girsu "= Nergal) or 

 Mersfi (the dialectic form of the name).* From traces of 

 another explanation of the name £^y -»^- ^yy given on the 

 above-quoted fragment, it would seem to have been called, 

 in Semitic Babylonian, J^y ^f t{^y( £^£=, Bit teliltu" 1 , 

 "house of glory," which is also the translation of another 

 temple-name, namely £^f |Jff <$ ]} , E-gia,} the temple of the 

 consort of E-Girsu, one of whose many names is »->f- -£-£y 



Page 129 (description of the early Semites of Babylonia). 

 The Chaldean Christians of the Euphrates valley still show 

 the same type. 



Page 130. E-ninnfi (J^f <g) means " Temple 50." Why 

 it was distinguished by this name we do not know. It was a 

 common thing, however, as will be seen from page 125, to 

 give the temples numbers, though on the tablet there quoted 

 it may have been simply for convenience of reference. 



Page 131. Ga-tumu-dugu (»->f- i^+f <sM ^) J seems also 

 to have been one of the names of the goddess Bau. It was 

 usual with the Assyrians and Babylonians to invoke the same 

 deity under several different names. 



" Among the divisions of men had established his power." 

 This is the general sense of these lines. The original has 

 " had set his hand therein." ^y ^^ ^y J^flf *-*%- *j|y ^f ]}, 

 su-ni ba-ta-an-ubbd, Col. Ill, 18). The " reference to building " 

 seems to record that " he set the beams, he arranged the 

 brickwork " (gisuru mii-gar, sege nepa). The characters which 



Amiaud renders " adorers of demons " are :^= £j q «sffij | £^ 



A J^L J|^, for a better rendering of which see the footnote. 

 The phrase " prophetesses of divine decrees " is written with 

 the characters £-* ^\t] Z&i, sal-*-dug-ga, " woman-*-saying." 



* The full dialectic form of the name of &-Girsu is •~ > f- \ ]*- J^f 

 ^yy , U-mersi. 



f There is evidently some confusion here on account of the Babylonian 

 J^y standing for both ^.] and i z ]]]\ (Assyrian). From W.A.I. II, 

 59, 29 the pronunciation gagia would rather be expected. 



\ The dialectic form of this name is *-»f- t\ >-EU jT^\ 4^ Masibsib. 



