[35] See Gen. xxiv. 53. Burkhardt, _Notes on the Bedouins_, i. 109, gives an example of the custom. [36] The two names are used by Gudea (Inscr. G, col. iii. 12) in a way to indicate that they embrace the whole district of Lagash. [37] _Semit. Voelker_, p. 382. [38] See Jensen, _Keils Bibl._ 3, 1, 28, note 2. [39] The first signifies 'to make,' the third means "good, favorable," but the second, upon which so much depends, is not clear. Amiaud reads _tum_ instead of _sig_. [40] _E.g._, Nina (see below). [41] De Sarzec, pl. 7, col. i. 12. [42] _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 104. [43] Inscr. D, col. iv. ll. 7, 8. [44] In Rawlinson, ii. 58, no. 6, there is a list of some seventy names. [45] Rawlinson, ii. 58, no. 6, 58. [46] De Sarzec, pl. 8, col v. ll. 4-6. [47] _Keils Bibl._ 3, 1, 80, note 3. [48] Rawlinson, iv. 35, no. 2, 1. [49] See a syllabary giving lists of gods, Rawlinson, ii. 60, 12. Dungi, indeed, calls Nergal once the king of lawful control over Lagash (Rawlinson, iv. 35, no. 2, ll. 2, 3). The exact force of the title is not clear, but in no case are we permitted to conclude as Amiaud does (_Rec. of the Past_, N.S., i. 59) that Shid-lam-ta-udda is identical with Nin-girsu. [50] See Jensen, _Kosmologie der Babylonier_, pp. 476-87. [51] See Jensen, _Kosmologie der Babylonier_, pp. 476-87. [52] So in the inscription of Rim-Sin (_Keils Bibl._ 3, 1, p. 97). [53] Perhaps the knob of a sceptre. _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._ viii. 68. [54] _E.g._, Hammurabi (_Revue d'Assyriologie_, ii. col. i. 21); but also Gudea and a still earlier king. [55] So Amlaud; and there seems some reason to believe that the name was used by the side of Utu, though perhaps only as an epithet. [56] Compare _birbiru_, 'sheen,' and the stem _baru_, 'to see,' etc. [57] See _Keils Bibl._ 3, I, 100. Reading of name uncertain. [58] Suggested by Rawlinson, ii. 57, 10. See Schrader, _Zeits. f. Assyr._ iii. 33 _seq._ [59] On Sippar, see Sayce, _Hibbert Lectures_, etc., 168-169, who finds in the Old Testament form "Sepharvayim" a trace of this double Sippar. Dr. Ward's suggestion, however, in regard to Anbar, as representing this 'second' Sippar, is erroneous. [60] _E.g._, in Southern Arabia. See W. Robertson Smith, _The Religion of the Semites_, I. 59. [61] In Rabbinical literature, the moon is compared to a 'heifer' (Talmud Babli Rosh-hashana 22 _b_). [62] That the name of Sin should have been introduced into Mesopotamia through the 'Arabic' dynasty (see above, p. 39) is less probable, though not impossible in the light of recent discoveries. [63] Innanna may be separated into _In_ = lord or lady, and _nanna_; _in_ and _nanna_ would then be elements added to "lady," conveying perhaps the idea of greatness. See Jensen's remarks, _Keils Bibl._ 3, I, 20, note 4. [64] _Rec. of the Past_, N.S., ii. p. 104. [65] _Keils Bibl._ 3, I, 16. See Jensen's note on the reading of the name.