1 8 Pinches, Hymns to Tammuz in the Manchester Museum. 



24. (Go,) O hero, to the distant land which is not seen. 



25. Alas the growth which hath been cut off — alas the pro- 



duce which hath been bound up. 



26. The cry goeth forth, O shepherd, destruction is decreed.* 



27. 'Where is his city?' the cry goeth forth.* 



28. From the house of the enclosure one shall bring thee 



forth *— 



29. Thou Hero, from the house of the enclosure one shall 



bring thee forth.* 

 Rev., 1. I. The freshet, warrior, lord physician,* etc., etc. (as in 



lines 4 — 12, above). 



10. His little ones repose in the sunken ship. 



11. His grown ones repose in the completed harvest. 



12. The people repose in the hurricane. 

 13 without resting. 



14 



(Plate 30, No. 2.) 



The word translated 'freshet,' in the above inscriptions, 

 is the Sumerian ela (written with the characters A-KALA, 

 literally ' mighty water,') and is translated by the Semitic 

 ellu, milu, and znu, the first two meaning ' flood,' or 

 something similar, and the last 'well.' It will be 

 remembered that, at the yearly feast of Adonisf held at 

 Gebal or Byblos, when the river named after him (now 

 known as the Nahr Ibrahim) ran red with the earth 

 washed down from Lebanon by the autumn rains, they 

 said that it was dyed with the blood of Adonis, slain, 

 according to the legend, by a wild boar in the mountains 



* The lines marked thus have no Semitic translation. 



fThe earliest reference to the Syrian Adon, Adoni, "lord," from which 

 Adonis comes, is probably to be found on a cylinder-seal belonging to Lord 

 Southesk. The text of the inscription which it bears (the order of the words 

 is not quite certain) reads as follows: D.P. Gistin (?) aduni mdr D.P. 

 Samas Abdi-Addi rie (or ris) tli, "Gistin my lord (or Gistin-adonis), son of 

 Samas (the sun), Abd-Hadad the shepherd (or chief) of the god." 



