_ga_ = phonetic complement, _sag gig-ga_ means a race of men, evidently here the Babylonians, the people in particular over whom Bêl exercised rule. The term is certainly not one of depreciation. It merely shows that the Babylonians were swarthy. On the other hand, “blackheaded” may be intended to mean the human race inhabiting the earth in contradistinction to the bright celestial beings (see CDAL. 878). Cyrus, in his Broken Cylinder, seems to use the phrase as meaning the Babylonians. His words are: _nišê ⋅al-mat ḳaḳḳadi šá ú-šá-ak-ši-du ḳa-ta-a-šu_. “The blackheaded people whom he caused his hands to conquer” (V R. 35, 13). 6. _a-a ^dimmer Mu-ul-lil i-de gaba nì-te-na_ O father Bêl, the only all-seeing one! _i-de_, phonetic representation of _ide_, which in the EK dialect is represented by the sign IGÛ with the value _igi_ which in Assyrian means _înu_, “eye” (Br. 4004, 4003 and 9273). _ide_ is ES for the EK _igi_. We have the sign IGÛ in the colophon where it occurs with ÂU, “water”, _a-ide_ meaning “water of the eye”. _i_ is represented by GIṬṬÛ (“five”). The value _i_, however, is, of course, entirely syllabic here. Notice that there is a slight difference between the Babylonian GIṬṬÛ and the Assyrian GIṬṬÛ. In Assyrian, GIṬṬÛ consists of two wedges followed by three. In Babylonian it consists of three followed by two, and in the linear form the sign consists of three horizontal lines followed by two (see AL. p. 125, No. 105). _de_ represented by IZÛ and having the value _bil_ means “fire”. The sign in its hieroglyphic form is probably a picture of building a fire by the friction of an instrument against a piece of wood. Hence the sign is properly composed of AM and GIŠ, AM representing something having a head and GIŠ meaning “wood”. The sign in our text is old Babylonian and may be found in Gudea (Cylinder B, Col. IV, line 13, in Déc. Plate 34). Possibly _i-de_ could be explained as if _i_ were an abstract prefix and _de_ as referring to the light of the eye, hence _i-de_ means “eye”. _gaba_ is the common word for _irtu_, “breast” (Br. 4477). The sign GABBU is a double MU-sign meaning “fulness”. From this idea of “fulness” we easily derive the idea of “open” (Br. 4490). So that _ide gaba_ means “open eyed”. The two MU’s appear entirely separate in the Babylonian form of the sign as they do not in the Assyrian form (see TC. p. 18). Our GABBU is not so old as the GABBU of the _Stèleo des Vauturs_, but is like Gudea’s GABBU (see Cylinder A, Cob XXI, line 25, in Déc. Plate 34). _i-de gaba_ is about equal to “omniscient”. _nì-te-na_ may be rendered as in line 1, “thyself,” or perhaps we could say “only”. 7. _a-a ^dimmer Mu-ul-lil ama erim-na di-di_ O father Bêl, the lord that executest judgment on thy enemies!