538 Or _Bêl-ṣarbe_, title of Nergal, v. VAB. IV 170, 67. Between lines 17 and 18 the variant inserts two lines. 539 But Mars in Amos 5, 26. I accept here the later identifications, Nergal-Mars, Ninurta-Saturn. The identifications in the earlier period of Babylonian astronomy appear to have been Ninurta-Mars and Nergal-Saturn. 540 Probably the astronomical form of Nusku as god of the new moon, IV R. 23a 4. His character as fire god is symbolized by the torch, ZA. VI 242, 24. In II 10 supply _Gibil_ after ZIMMERN RT. 27, 5. As fire god he is messenger of Enlil. _ 541 Papsukal_, messenger of Zamama, god of Kiš, a form of Ninurta. He also like Nusku derives his messenger character from his connection with light, _Papsukal ša še-ir-ti_, Papsukal of the morning light, CT. 24, 40, 53. Since Ninurta is identified with Alpha of Orion, Pap-sukal is identified with one of the stars in Orion, CT. 33, 2 II 2; _mul__sib-zi-an-na __d__Pap-sukal [sukal __d__Anim Ištar]_ restored from VIROLLEAUD, _Supplement_ LXVII 10. Here he is messenger of heaven and of Ishtar as Venus, queen of heaven, that is, he is a messenger of the powers of celestial light. Nusku and Pap-sukal often occur together in magic texts, _Shurpu_ VIII 10. 542 Here probably Sakkut as lord of light and justice, god of Isin, in his normal capacity. See BL. 120 n. 6. His emblem is something made of date palm, _šág, gišimmar_. This deity is unknown in magic texts except in ZIMMERN, Rt. 70, 8. 543 Ishtar of Erech is Venus as evening star, the effeminate Venus of Erech, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, 54 and 180 n. 4. 544 Venus as morning star. The Ishtar of Agade was the type of war goddess, see op. cit. p. 100; hence Venus as morning star is sometimes called the Bow Star, KUGLER, _Sternkunde_ II 198. 545 Western title of Geštinanna, sister of Ishtar. Here perhaps the constellation Virgo. 546 The seven gods are the Pleiades, CT. 33, 2, 44. Since they are followed by Enmesharra perhaps here to be identified with the seven sons of Enmesharra (see BE. 31, 35). In ZA. VI 242, 20 _gi-uru-gal-meš_, “the great reed spears” are symbols of the seven great gods, sons of Išhara. But traces of the last sign are not those of _MEŠ_ here. 547 In astronomy a form of Nin-urta = Saturn, but by character allied to Nergal a lower world deity. See line 11 above. For E. as Saturn note V Raw. 46_a_ 21, his star _UDU-LIM_ and II R. 48, 52 the same star is _d__UDU-BAD-sag-uš = kaimânu_, Saturn. See also BE. 31, 35 n. 4 line 12, _kaimānu_ title of Enmesharra. _ 548 šimeššalû_ employed in medical texts, see SAI. 3574 and JASTROW, _Medical Text_ Rev. 5. Here also without _giš_. HOLMA, _Beiträge zum assyrischen Lexicon_, p. 85, identified it with Syr. _šamšārā_, Persian and Arabic _šimšar_.