[66] The two dialects were called _eme_-KU (i.e. _eme-lakhkha_, W.A.I. iii. 4, 31, 32), “the language of the enchanter,” and _eme_-SAL, “the woman’s language,” which are rendered in Semitic Babylonian, _lisan Sumeri_ and (_lisan_) _Akkadi_, “the language of Sumer” and “the language of Akkad.” In a tablet (81, 7–27, 130, 6, 7) they are said to be “like” one another. Other dialects were termed “the language of the sacrificer” and “the language of the anointer,” as being used by these two classes of priests. They differed, perhaps, from the standard dialects in intonation or the use of technical words. We hear also of “a carter’s language” in which _anbarri_--which, it is noticeable, is a Sumerian word--meant “yoke and reins,” _i.e._ “harness” (_Zeitschrift für Assyriologie_, ix. p. 164). [67] Fick, however, is an exception (_Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen_, xxix. pp. 229–247.) [68] _Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse_, i. pp. 152–3. Photographs of the two types--Sumerian and Semitic--represented on the early monuments of Babylonia are given by Dr. Pinches in an interesting Paper in the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, January 1900, pp. 87–93. [69] It is noticeable that the script of the other people whose civilization grew up on the banks of a river, the Egyptians namely, contains no special ideograph for “river.” The word is expressed by the phonetically-written _atur_, with the determinative of “water” or “irrigation basin.” As in the primitive hieroglyphs of Babylonia, “the sea” was a “circle.” [70] For proof of this reading see _Expository Times_, xvii. p. 416 and note _infra_, p. 91. [71] See my _Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia_, pp. 373–84. [72] Taylor found quantities of sea-shells in its ruins (_Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, xv. p. 412). At the time of its foundation an arm of the sea probably ran up to it from the south-east, though the myth of Adamu describes him as fishing each day in the waters of the actual Gulf, rather than in an arm of it. [73] The Moon-god of Ur was a “son” of El-lil, the god of Nippur. [74] For proof of this see my _Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_, p. 105.