502 Cf. CT. 12, 3_a_ 29; _ina šar-tu la uštešir-šu u ina me-riš-tum la i-kal-li_, “By fraud he has not translated it and with wilful readings has he not published it.” For _šutešuru_, “to translate or edit a tablet,” see LEHMANN, _Shamash-shum-ukîn_, Taf. XXXIV 17 _akkadû ana šutešuri_, “to translate into Akkadian.” On this difficult passage concerning the education of Ašurbanipal see _Sumerian Grammar_, p. 3 and corrections by UNGNAD in ZA. 31, 41. _ikalli_ probably for _ukallim_; note the variant _ušâbi = ušâpi_. 503 Only in a loose sense. From Tammuz to Kislev is the period of death, from Kislev to Tammuz the period of revivification of nature. See on the meaning of this passage KUGLER, _Im Bannkreis Babels_ 62-5. 504 Temple of Marduk in Babylon. 505 Temple of Nebo in Barsippa. _ 506 maš-dū_=_muškênitu_. _ 507 šarahitum._ 508 See _Tammuz and Ishtar_, p. 151. Ašrat or the western Ashtoreth usually had the title _bêlit ṣêri_, “Lady of the plains” and was identified with the Babylonian Geštinanna and Nidaba. Hence _[Bêlit-]ṣêri_ is _dupšarrat irṣitm_, scribe of the lower world, K.B. VI 190,47; cf. IV R. 27 B 29. 509 See lines 51-4 of this tablet. Nergal descends into the earth on the 18th of Tammuz and remains until the 28th of Kislev. _ 510 ilat__Šarrat_. 511 Here epitomized. It will be found transcribed and translated by ZIMMERN in his _Zum Babylonischen Neujahrfest_, p. 129. _ 512 MAŠ_. See below Col. II 15, gypsum is Ninurta, the god of war, primarily a god of light. Gypsum, Sum. _im-bar_, “radiant clay,” became symbolic of Ninurta because of its light transparent color. 513 So, because gypsum, lime and pitch are smeared on the door of the house and the god of light (Ninurta) tramples upon the demon of darkness. 514 Two inferior deities related to Nergal, god of the lower world. Their images placed at the enclosure of a house prevent the demons, ZIMMERN, Rt. 168, 21 f. The image of Lugalgirra designed on a wall prevents the devils, _ibid._ 166,12. He binds the evil ones, IV R. 21* C III 26. The two are placed at the right and left of a door to forbid the devils to enter. Maklu VI 124. 515 The great trinity: heaven, earth and sea. 516 In any case a cult utensil on which a noise was made, CT. 16, 24, 32. 517 See the Chicago Syllabar 230 where she is identified with Nidaba. 518 Cf. ZA. 16, 178, 27; BA. V 649, 3; _Shurpu_ VIII 10. 519 So A. B. COOK, _Zeus_, 632. I would, however, entertain doubts concerning this explanation of silver as the emblem of the Asiatic Zeus and of Jupiter Dolichenus. The identification of this metal with the sky god in Babylonia and Kommagene surely reposes upon a more subtle idea. [For the explanation of silver = Anu and gold = Enlil, see p. 342.]