50.) The presence of the women may have been intended at first to present
an innocent attraction. See also Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies," vol.
iii. p. 21.]

[Footnote 2: See Herodotus, vol. i. p. 199. Ishtar was called Mylitta or
Beltis in the time of Herodotus. We have taken the above description from
Herodotus, whose work is mostly confirmed by the cuneiform inscriptions.]

[Footnote 3: The above psalm is found in vol. iii. of Rawlinson's "British
Museum Inscriptions," pl. 66, and was translated by H.F. Talbot, F.R.S.,
in vol. i. of the "Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology," p.
108, and also by M. Lenormant in his "Premières Civilisations," p. 177. We
have used Mr. Talbot's transcription.]

[Footnote 4: See terra-cotta tablet numbered "S. 954" in the British
Museum; also translation by Rev. A.H. Sayce, M.A., in the "Records of the
Past," vol. v. p. 157.]

[Footnote 5: See fragment in Sayce's edition Smith's "Chald. Acc. of
Gen.," p. 220, col. iii.]

[Footnote 6: The harvest month was the month of Sivan, which is mentioned
by the Oracle of Ishtar of Arbela. See "Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western
Asia," vol. iv. pl. 68; also "Records of the Past," vol. xi. pp. 61-62.]



COLUMN IV

THE KING GOES FROM ISHTAR'S TEMPLE TO THE TEMPLE OF SAMAS