525 In K. 165 Rev. 8 f. the tamarisk and date palm are said to be created in heaven (_giš an-na ù-tŭ_) and the same is said of them in Gudea, Cyl. B 4, 10, _giš-šinig giš-šeḳḳa_ (i. e. = _šig = gišimmaru_) _an ù-tud-da_. This plant appears frequently in magic rituals, IV R. 59_b_ 4 _iṣu__ bi-ni_ (Semitic), IV R. 16_b_ 31, _Shurpu_ IX 1-8, and also in medical texts. _bînu_ has been identified with Syriac _bînā_, tamarisk. If this identification be correct, a comparison with the Hebrew legend of the _manna_ (bread of heaven in Psalms 105,40), said to have been the exudation of the tamarisk, is possible. 526 Semitic _uḳuru_, Aramaic _ḳêrā_, see MEISSNER, MVAG. 1913, 2 p. 40 and BE. 31, 69 n. 2. Used both in medicine and magic. 527 Passim in rituals and medicine. See BE. 31, 69, 27; 72, 29; KING, _Magic_ 11, 44; MEISSNER, SAI. 2805. 528 In _Shurpu_ VIII 70 mentioned with _šalālu_. A magic ointment made of the _El_ and _maštakal_, CT. 34, 9, 41. See also EBELING, KTA. 90 rev. 17; KING, _Magic_ 30, 25. Perhaps identical in name with the stone _arzallu_, SAI. 8545. On a Dublin tablet often _giš EL_. Cf. _ú-šig-el-šar_ = _šûmu_, onion. 529 For the correct reading _ni-ná-a_, see AJSL. XXXIII 194, 159. 530 Here a wood employed in magic, cf. BE. 31, 60, 6+15. In syllabars _giš-BUR = gišburru, giškirru_, indicates a weapon or an utensil. _ 531 NITA-DU_, fire god, title of Nergal as fire god and identical with _d__ gĭr_ = Nergal. 532 Here certainly _Anu_, heaven god, followed by Earth and Sea gods. Note also _d__Gu-la_ in liturgies _passim_ as title of Anu, BL. 136. Anu = Sin, see p. 342. 533 Title of Enlil, lord of the totality of decrees. Enlil = Šamaš. 534 Originally title of the great unmarried mother goddess _bêlit ilāni_, but often a title of the virgin types Innini and Ninâ, BL. 141; of Gula _ibid._ Also somewhat frequently she is Damkina, consort of Ea, IV R. 54_b_ 47; CT. 33, 3, 21 her star beside that of Ea. Here she is the mother goddess and the same order, Heaven, Earth, Sea, Mother Goddess in _Shurpu_ IV 42, where Nin-maģ has the Var. Nin-tud, EBELING, KTA. p. 121, 11. Symbols of these four deities on boundary stones in same register, HINKE, _A New Boundary Stone_, p. 28 second register, et passim. 535 Possibly a metal stood here, identified with _d__MAŠ_, a star in Orion (Kaksidi= Beteigeuze), CT. 33, 2, 6; KING, _Magic_ 50, 29. 536 Possibly the constellation Ursa Major. Margidda, the Wagon is intended, identified with Ninlil on a Berlin text, WEIDNER, _Handbuch_ 79, 10. See also BEZOLD in DEIMEL, _Pantheon Babylonicum_ 215. 537 From the context certainly a title of Marduk. ZIM. 27 I 19 omits _LU-TU_.