36 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, ESQ., LL.D._, M.R.A.S., ON 



Lord of the good wind (? inspiration), lord of obedience and favour, 

 Creator of fulness and plenty, institutor of abundance, 

 He who changes small things to great. 

 In our dire need we scented his sweet breath — 

 Let (men) speak, let them glorify, let them do him homage. 

 Tutu (is) Aga-azaga, fourthly. May he make the crowns glorious, 

 The lord of the glorious incantation bringing the dead to life, 

 He who had mercy on the gods who had been overpowered, 

 Who made heavy the yoke laid on the gods his enemies, 

 For their redemption created mankind. 

 The merciful one, he with whom is the giving of life. 

 May his word be established, and not forgotten, 

 In the moiith of the black-headed ones^ whom his hands have made. 

 Tutu (is) Mu-azaga, fifthly. May their mouth make known his glorious 

 incantation, 



Him who with his glorious charm rooteth out all the evil ones. 



Sa-zu — he who knowetli the heart of the gods, who looketh at the 



inward parts, 

 He who letteth not evil-doers go forth against him. 

 He who assembleth the gods, who appeaseth their hearts, 



He who subdueth the disobedient, 



He who directeth righteousness and justice 



Who setteth aside injustice, 



Tutu (is) Zi-si, he who bringeth about silence 



He who sendeth forth the stillness, 



Tutu (is) Suh-kur, annihilator of the enemy, 



Dissolver of their agreements, 



Annihilator of everything evil " 



Here the obverse breaks off, and there is a gap of several 

 lines, after which the inscription is continued on the 

 reverse : — 



. . the constellation . . . (which shineth forth in the heavens) 

 Then seized he the back part of the head, which he pierced (?) 

 And as Kirbis-Tiamthu he circumvented restlessly. 

 Let his name be Nlbiru, the seizer of Kirbisu. 

 The paths of the stars of heaven let him control, 

 Let him pasture like sheep the stars, all of them. 

 Let him confine Tiamthu, bring her life into pain and anguish. 

 In man's remote ages, in lateness of days. 



Let him arise, and he shall not cease, let him continue (?) to the future. 



As he made the (heavenly) place, and formed the firm (ground). 



Father Bel called his name ' Lord of the world,' 



The appellation (by which the Igigi, all of them, call him), 



A^ heard, and he rejoiced in his heart. 



Thus (he spake) : ' He, whose renowned name his fathers have so 

 glorified. 



Shall be like me, and Ae shall be his name. 



The total of my commands, all of them, let him possess, and 



The whole of my pronouncements let him, (even) him, make known.' 



By the appellation ' Fifty ' the great gods 



^ Mankind, or the Semitic and Sumerian races. 



