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Although the meaning of the majority of these ideographs has not yet been identified, Père Scheil, who has edited the texts, has succeeded in making out the system of numeration. He has identified the signs for unity, 10, 100, and 1,000, and for certain fractions, and the signs for these figures are quite different from those employed by the Sumerians.
As a result, the succession of known rulers was thrown into truer perspective, and such gaps as remained were being partially filled by later discoveries. Among the latter the most important find was that of an early list of kings, recently published by Père Scheil and subsequently purchased by the British Museum shortly before the war.
The tablet also furnishes the phonetic reading pï-ïr, and Scheil is of the opinion that these two syllables form the first element in the name of the hero. Unfortunately, the tablet is badly mutilated at this point, so that the question of the reading is not absolutely certain. Gen. xix. The word used is tû which means a charm or incantation in general. Made of the charm root. Gilgamesh.
The earlier of the two fragments is dated in the eleventh year of Ammizaduga, the tenth king of Hammurabi's dynasty, i.e. in 1967 B.C.; it was published by Scheil, Recueil de travaux, Vol. XX, pp. 55 ff.
For these also shrines were built within or near the sacred precinct. Gudea sets the example for his successors by parading a large pantheon at the close of his inscriptions, and a list of temples in Lagash, recently published by Scheil, shows that most, if not all, of the gods invoked by the ruler had a sanctuary erected in his or her honor.
(This translation differs in some respects from that previously given by me, as it is based on the copy of the text made from the original at Constantinople by Dr. Scheil (Recueil de Trailaux relatifs
Recently, Scheil has discovered some private dwellings at Abu-Habba, which will be described in his forthcoming volume on his explorations at that place. See also Peters' Nippur, ii. 200, 201. Peters' Nippur, ii. 220. See p. 597. The date of the monument is prior to Sargon; i.e., earlier than 3800 B.C. VR. 61, col. vi. ll. 54, 55. Rassam Cylinder, col. iii. l. 40.
On the duplicate six demons are placed in the second division and the seventh in the third. On the duplicate those two demons do not occur. Schell thinks that the face is that of a dog. On the Zurghul duplicate the horse is not pictured. See p. 529. This division is not marked in the duplicate from Zurghul. Not occurring on the duplicate. Scheil questions whether the divisions have this purpose.
Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant, chapter vii. See p. 536. Or as a third dream. Haupt, pp. 45, 53. Attitude of despair. I.e., 'offspring of life. I adopt Delitzsch's reading of the name. At the recent Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists, Scheil presented a tablet dealing with the deluge narrative. See p. 507, note 1. "Client of Marduk."
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