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a-na abzu Akkad Akkadian Amurru ancient Anunnaki Apsu Assyrian Astrolabes astronomical Atra-hasis Babylon Beih beru bilingual border cella circle cosmic regions dé-a demons den-líl Dilmun Ea-stars eagle earth's surface east elâtu Enki Enlil Enuma Elish Epic ersetu Esarra Etana Euphrates example gates Gilg Gilgamesh gods heaven and earth Heaven of Anu hymn identi˜ed identified Igigi Inanna incantation inscriptions Istar Kassite Kinnier Wilson Etana lands leagues lines lists located Lower Sea Magan Marduk marratu Meluhha Mesopotamian Moon mountains Mul-Apin nagû Neo-Assyrian Nergal Nergal and Ereskigal occurs Old Babylonian parallel passage Path of Enlil Paths of Anu place-names preserves qaqqaru refer RGTC river samê samû Sargon Geography Sargon of Akkad Section seven Shamash SpTU stars Sumer Sumerian Sun-god sunrise sunset supuk tablet tâmtu term texts Tiamat Tigris underworld W. G. Lambert waters winds World Map ziqpu-stars
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Page viii - I would like to thank the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to quote from...
Page ix - XXVI ff. c) in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD) d) in Bo Reicke - Leonhard Rost, Biblisch-historisches Handwörterbuch AbB I AKM Bauer-Leander BOuT Brockelmann
Page x - A. Shaffer, Sumerian Sources of Tablet XII of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ph.D.
Page 9 - And they saw the God of Israel, and beneath his feet was as a work of clear sapphire and as the heaven itself for brightness.
Page 31 - All the lands, the entire inhabited world from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea, distant lands, the people of vast territories, kings of far away mountains and remote nagu in the Upper and Lower Sea, whose lead-rope Marduk, my lord, placed in my hand in order to pull his yoke.
Page viii - His wise and learned criticisms were invaluable in the preparation of the book. I would also like to thank my colleagues at The Hebrew University, Professors Aaron Shaffer and Hayim Tadmor, and my first teachers of Akkadian and Sumerian, Dr.