[Footnote 4: "Mandrake," the "love-plant."]

[Footnote 5: "Dud'im" or "dudaim," [Hebrew: dud'im] or Chald. [Hebrew:
ibduchin] and Syr. [Hebrew: ibduch'] the "love-plant" or mandrake; perhaps
also originally from "du-du" ("love") or ex. [Hebrew: du] ("particula"),
Arab. "possessorem designante," et ex rad. Arab. [Hebrew: ddy]
("ægrotavit"), or [Hebrew: dud] or "amare." See Simoni's Lex. Man. Heb. et
Chald. et Lat., pp. 204-206, and Park's Heb. Lex., p. 113, note +.]

[Transcriber's Note: The above "+" is my rendering of a footnote "cross"
common in older books.]

[Footnote 6: "An-nu-na-ci," spirits of the earth.]



TABLET II--COLUMN I

ISHTAR'S MIDNIGHT COURTSHIP IN THE PALACE OF IZDUBAR.


As Samas' car sank in the glowing west,
And Sin the moon-god forth had come full drest
For starry dance across the glistening skies,
The sound of work for man on earth now dies,
And all betake themselves to sweet repose.
The silver light of Sin above bright flows,
And floods the figures on the painted walls,
O'er sculptured lions, softly, lightly falls;