15. _nin gašan nigín-gar-ra edin-na_ 15. The queen, lady Nigingar, on the plain wails. 16. _nin gašan Lara-ak-(ki)-ge_(_499_)_ edin-na_ 16. The queen, lady of Larak, on the plain wails. 17. _nin gašan I-si-in-na-(ki) edin-na_ 17. The queen, lady of Isin, on the plain wails. 18. _nin ama é-dúr_(_500_)_-azag-ga edin-na_ 18. The queen, mother of the holy city, on the plain wails. 19. _nin ama ŠU-ḪAL-BI_(_501_)_ edin-na_ 19. The queen, the ... mother, on the plain wails. 20. _d.__Ba-ú nu-númuz šág-ga edin-na_ 20. Bau, the pious woman, on the plain wails. 21. _éš é-rab-ri-ri umun __d.__Sá-kut-maģ-a edin-a_ 21. The abode, Erabriri, of the lord Sakutmah on the plain wails. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 22. _e-lum-e la-lu u-’u-a u-’u-a_ 22. Oh honored one, the exuberant, alas, alas. 23. _96-ám mu-šid-bi-im duppu 3-kam e-lum di-da-ra nu al-tíl_ 23. Ninety-six is the number of its lines. Third tablet of _Elum didara_, unfinished. 24. _gab-ri Bár-sip-(ki) kima labiri-šu ša-ṭir-ma barim duppu __d.__Bêl-iḳ-ṣur māri-šu ša __d.__Bêl-iškun-ni_ 24. Copy from Barsippa, according to its original, written and collated. Tablet of Bêlikṣur son of Belishkunni, 25. _mar Iddin-__d.__Papsukkal pa-liḫ __d.__Nabu ina šar-tum la uštešir ù ina me-riš-tum la u-ša-bi_(_502_) 25. son of Iddin-Papsukkal worshipper of Nebo. In fraud he has not translated it and with wilful readings has he not published it. BABYLONIAN CULT SYMBOLS. 6060 (NO. 12) Ni. 6060, a Cassite tablet in four columns, yields a notable addition to the scant literature we now possess concerning Babylonian mystic symbols. A fragmentary Assyrian copy from the library of Ašurbanipal was published by ZIMMERN as No. 27 of his _Ritual Tafeln_. The Assyrian copy contains only fifteen symbols with their mystic identifications, in Col. II of the obverse. The ends of the lines of the right half of Col. I are preserved on ZIMMERN 27, and these are all restored by the Cassite original. The obverse of these two restored tablets contained about sixty symbols with their divine implications. Most of them are the names of plants, metals, cult utensils and sacrificial animals, each being identified with a deity. A tablet in the British Museum, dated in the 174th year of the Seleucid era or 138 B. C., Spartola Collection I 131, published by STRASSMAIER, ZA. VI 241-4, begins with an astronomical myth concerning the summer and winter solstices(503) and then inserts a passage on the mystic meanings of ten symbols. The myth of the solstices runs as follows: