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'Eating' appears to be a metaphor for destruction in general. Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 173 seq. Here used as an epithet of the nether world. See above, p. 563. Or 'palace. The lower world, it will be recalled, is pictured as a house or a country. Here the two terms are combined. See Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 341. The phrases used are the ordinary terms of greeting. See, e.g., VR. 65, 17b.
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