Accadian Hymn to Istar.

An Accadian Penitential Psalm.

Accadian Poem on the Seven Evil Spirits.

Two Accadian Hymns.

Accadian Proverbs and Songs.

[Footnote 5: From the "Accadian Hymn to Ishtar," terra-cotta tablet numbered "S, 954," one of the oldest hymns of a very remote date, deposited in the British Museum by Mr. Smith.

[Footnote 9: Babil, Babylon; the Accadian name was "Diu-tir," or "Duran."]

[Footnote 2: "Khar-sak-kur-ra," the Deluge mountain on which the ark of Khasisadra (the Accadian Noah) rested.]

We have here identified her with Ellat-gula, the Queen of Babylon, who preceded Ham-murabi or Nammurabi, whom the inscriptions indicate was an Accadian.

[Footnote 14: "Subartu" is derived from the Accadian "subar" ("high"), applied by the Accadians to the highlands of Aram or Syria.

[Footnote 3: One of the Accadian psalms is here quoted from "Chaldean Magic," by Lenormant, pp. 185, 186.

The Accadian and Assyrian text is found in "C.I.W.A.," vol.

66, 2, and is supposed to be an ancient Accadian prayer.

The original Accadian text is preserved in the first column with an interlinear Assyrian translation: the short paragraphs in Column III also give the Accadian original; but elsewhere the Assyrian scribe has contented himself with the Assyrian rendering alone.

[Footnote 1: The Accadian word is translated by the Assyrian "siptu" ("lip"), and may be translated "beginning" or "fresh paragraph."

] [Footnote 5: The Accadian god identified with Merodach by the Assyrian translator was "Silik-mulu-khi" ("the protector of the city who benefits mankind").

As it is written in Accadian, its composition must be referred to a date anterior to the seventeenth century B.C., when that language became extinct.

Accadian poetry was characterized by a parallelism of ideas and clauses; and as this was imitated, both by the Assyrians and by the Jews, the striking resemblance between the form of Accadian and Hebrew poetry can be accounted for.

Accadian poetry was characterized by a parallelism of ideas and clauses; and as this was imitated, both by the Assyrians and by the Jews, the striking resemblance between the form of Accadian and Hebrew poetry can be accounted for.

AN ACCADIAN PENITENTIAL PSALM OBVERSE OF TABLET 1 The heart of my Lord was wroth: to his place may he return.

] [Footnote 2: The Accadian throughout has the word "mother" before "goddess."

"] [Footnote 4: Accadian, "in tears [water of the eye] I dissolved myself.

I therefore transcribe "Sumer," which was the true name of the people and the language named wrongly Accadian.

We hearken, reverently, thankfully, to the philosophy and poetry of Hebrew, Chaldean and Accadian sages and seers, in these profound and subtle parables of the mysteries which still fascinate us.

'The wise and learned' dispute endlessly over dates of documents, over the amount of later doctrine interpolated into the earlier texts, over the nature, source, and quantity of foreign influenceChaldaean, Accadian, Egyptian, or Assyrian.