_ 241 nar-balag_ = _tigû_, a kind of flute. Here the word indicates that in the musical accompaniment this instrument was employed. It probably denotes a specific kind of melody. Three other musical instruments have given their names to classes of melodies, the _eršemma_, _balag_ and _me-zí_, see SBP. page IX, and BL. page XXXVIII. 242 Rev. II 22. 243 Rev. II 19. 244 Rev. II 29. 245 Rev. II 30. 246 Rev. II 37:41. Cf. _er-gig mu-un-šéš-šéš_, ZIMMERN, KL. 25 II 2 f. 247 See _Historical and Religious Texts_ 5-8. _ 248 nig_ to _ni_. 249 Lines 50-54 on Col. III may be restored from lines 8-12. 250 Literally, “decree again their oracle.” _ 251 gim_, emphatic suffix. 252 We meet here for the first time with two avenging angels or genii who attend the Word in its execution of the wrath of god. _Ḳingaludda_ is mentioned as one of four evil spirits _ilu limmu_ in CT. 25, 22, 44. He is mentioned with the Zû bird and the demon _šêdu_ as appearing in dream omens, BOISSIER, DA. 207, 34. See also BOISSIER, _Choix_, II 53, 4. On _uddugub_ as a title of kings see BE. 31, 22 n. 9. 253 The _ud-gal_ is regarded as plural = _ûmu rabûti_ and identified with the evil spirits of incantations, CT. 16, 22, 266 and 276. In the Epic of Creation the “great spirit of wrath” is one of the demons attendant upon Tiamat. 254 See PBS. X 161, 13. 255 The traces on Ni. 7080 are against the restoration _še-am-šá_. Lines 11-19 are restored from PBS. X No. 10. _ 256 gĭr_? Variant _gú-nin!_ 257 Cf. RA. 12, 37, 1. 258 So from my copy and CT. IV 4_b_ 12 = _Babyloniaca_, III 17. 259 For this title of Tammuz, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, 34. 260 Probably for _dagan = puḫru_, RA. 11, 144, 8. See also _dakan_, divine abode, DELITZSCH, _Glossar_, 132. 261 Cf. SB P. 304, 13. 262 Title of Tammuz as spirit of the waters, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, pp. 6 and 44. _a-bal = tābik mê_, pourer of water, irrigator, is the original idea of this ideogram. For the title _galu-a-bal_ in this sense, see CT. 13, 42, 7 ff. _Ak-ki galu abal_, the gardener who cared for Sargon. See also THUREAU-DANGIN, _Lettres et Contrats_, No. 174, 6-8, _galu a-bal_, a kind of laborer. The later usage of the word as libator of water for the souls of the dead, Semitic _näḳ mê_ is a strictly conventional development, see _Babyloniaca_, VI 208. _ 263 al_ as synonym of _DE_ (in line 21) is probably a variant of _ilu = nagû_. 264 Sign _DE_. 265 This line is connected with the classical interlude _ma-a-bi ud-me-na-gim_ etc. discussed in SBP. 185 n. 10 and BL. XLIX. 266 Below the double line the figure 38, i.e. 38 lines on the obverse. Thirteen lines have been broken from the top. 267 Cf. ZIMMERN, K.L., 25 II 42. 268 I. e. Isin. 269 On this title see BL. 143.