Most interesting are the months from Girsu (Lagash). From the pre-Sargonic period about 25 names of months have hitherto been found, of which only 8 or 9 persisted up to the second and third periods. These 25 names of months are divided by Landsberger into the following groups:--(1) occasional names of months, under which he includes those which are consciously named after the object or employment mentioned in the document itself, or even improvised from the domestic occupation in question. Four names are given but are not translated. (2) isolated and foreign names of months: ‘month in which the shining (or white) star sinks down from the culmination-point’, a type familiar to us; ‘month in which the third people came from Uruk’, doubtless an accidental description. Further, two months named from festivals at Lagash. (3) agricultural by-names: _itu še-kin-kud-du_, see above; _itu gur-dub-ba-a_, ‘month in which the granary is covered with grain’; further a name not explained, perhaps identical with the foregoing. (4) terms belonging to the religious cult. Of these no fewer than 17 exist, not counting those already mentioned: they are nearly all named after festivals. Great pains have been taken to arrange the months in their position in the calendar, and the superfluous names have been set down merely as doublets, since they have been judged by the lists of months current among ourselves. When we compare the terms with those of the primitive time-reckoning, it becomes clear that the naming of the months is here in the same fluctuating state as e. g. among the Melanesians. According to circumstances, an agricultural occupation, the rising of a star, a festival, etc., is seized upon in order to describe the month. Certainly the months can be chronologically arranged, but to draw up a fixed series from these 25 names is impossible, even if tendencies towards the formation of such a series already exist. The development tends in this direction in order to facilitate a general understanding, and in the second period, at the time of the kingdom of Akkad in the 28th to 26th centuries, a list of this nature occurs[835]:--1, _itu ezen gan-maš_, perhaps ‘month of the reckoning’, i. e. of the profits of the agriculture, or ‘_mois où la campagne resplendit_’; 2, _itu ezen har-ra-ne-sar-sar_, ‘month in which the oxen work’; 3, _itu ezen dingir ne-šu_, of uncertain meaning but connected with the cult; 4, _itu šu-kul_, see above; 5, _itu ezen dim-ku_, month of the feast in which the _dim_ consecrated to the deity was eaten; 6, _itu ezen ^{dingir} Dumu-zi_, month of the Tammuz feast; 7, _itu ur_; 8, _itu ezen ^{dingir} Bau_, month of the feast of the goddess Bau; 9, _itu mu-šu-gab_, meaning uncertain; 10, _itu mes-en-du-še-a-na_ (?); 11, _itu ezen amar-a(-a)-si_, _amar_ = ‘young brood’, _a_ = ‘water’, _si_ = _malu_ = ‘to be full’, and therefore probably ‘spawning month’; 12, _itu še-še-kin-a_, another form for _še-kin-kud_; 13, _itu ezen še-illa_, ‘_mois où