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Gilgamesh spoke to the hunter: Go, hunter mine, and take with thee Ukhat When the cattle comes to the trough, Let her tear off her dress and disclose her nakedness. He will see her and approach her. His cattle, which grew up on his field, will forsake him. Ukhatu is a name for a harlot devoted to the worship of Ishtar. Other names for such devotees are Kharimtu and Kizritu.
On these night watches, see Delitzsch's article in the Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung, ll. 284-294. See above, pp. 267, 343. Kharimtu, Kisritu, Ukhatu, Shamuktu. See IIR, 32, no. 2, ll. 31-36, and above, pp. 475, 484. See his article on "Sacrifice" in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and his Religion of the Semites, Lectures VI-XI. Inscription G, cols, iii-vi.