6 Undoubtedly Ni. 11327, a mythological hymn to Enki in four columns, belongs to this class. It is published as No. 14 of this part. A similar _zagsal_ to Enki belongs to the Constantinople collection, see p. 45 of my _Historical and Religious Texts_. _ 7 Historical and Religious Texts_, pp. 14-18. 8 See PSBA. 1919, 34. 9 One of the most remarkable tablets in the Museum is Ni. 14005, a didactic poem in 61 lines on the period of pre-culture and institution of Paradise by the earth god and the water god in Dilmun. Published by BARTON, _Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions_, No. 8. The writer’s exegesis of this tablet will be found in _Le Poème Sumérien du Paradis_, 135-146. It is not called a _zag-sal_ probably because the writer considered the tablet too small to be dignified by that rubric. Similar short mythological poems which really belong to the _zag-sal_ group are the following: hymn to Shamash, RADAU, _Miscel._ No. 4; hymn to Ninurta as creator of canals, RADAU, BE. 29, No. 2, translated in BL., 7-11; hymn to Nidaba, RADAU, _Miscel._ No. 6. 10 Ni. 112; see pp. 172-178. 11 For example, MYHRMAN, No. 3; RADAU, _Miscel._ No. 13; both canonical prayer books of the weeping mother class. For a liturgy of the completed composite type in the Tammuz cult, see RADAU, BE. 30, Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 9. 12 See ZIMMERN, _Sumerische Kultlieder_, p. V, note 2. 13 The base text here is ZIMMERN, KL. No. 12. 14 The base of this text is ZIMMERN, KL. No. 11. 15 Now in the Nies Collection, Brooklyn, New York. 16 A similar liturgy is Ni. 19751, published by BARTON, _Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions_, No. 6. 17 Translated by RADAU on pages 436-440. 18 Abbreviation for _ki-šub-gú-da_ = _šêru_, strophe, song of prostration. 19 No. 3 of the texts in part 4. _ 20 sa-gar_ = _pitnu šaknu_, choral music, v. ZIMMERN, ZA. 31, 112. See also the writer’s PBS. Vol. XII, p. 12. _ 21 nar-balag._ The liturgists classified the old songs according to the instrument employed in the accompaniment. See SBP. p. ix. 22 See page 118 in part 2. 23 See IV Raw. 53, III 44-IV 28 restored from BL. 103 Reverse, a list of 47 _šu-il-lá_ prayers to various deities. 24 Pages 106-109. 25 Less than half the tablet is preserved. 26 Note that this breviary of the cult of Libit-Ishtar terminates with two ancient songs, one to Innini and one to Ninâ, both types of the mother goddess who was always intimately connected with the god-men as their divine mother. 27 For a list of the abbreviations employed in this volume, see page 98 of Part I.