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COL. VII 61
whose hand is the beautiful staff, (14) who created deity,
deity not having created him, come into the midst of
this fire that is here before thee, he of Boel, Aniel
(15) [ cause me to see the business about
(16) and do thou { give strength to the eyes of the boy
jwhich I am inquiring here to-day, let it be seen, let
(who has my vessel, to cause him to see it, and to his
fit be heard ) _ . ..
1 , . . O great god Sisihout,
lears to cause him to hear it,J
(17) f before me and cause my eyes
(18) Akhremto, come in ( into the midst of this flame,
(17) to be opened to everything for which I pray here to-day,
(18) O great god that is upon the hill of (Atugi) Gabaon,
Khabaho, Takrtat.' You recite this (19) until the light
appear. When the light appears, you turn round (?), you
recite this spell-copy a second time again. Behold the
spell-copy also (?) of the summons (20) that you recite :
' Ho ! speak to me (bis) Thes, Tenor, the father of eter-
nity without end, the god who is over the whole earth,
Salkmo, (21) Balkmo, Brak, Nephro, Bampre, Brias,
Sarinter, Melikhriphs, (22) Largnanes, Herephes, Me-
phrobrias, Pherka, Phexe, Diouphia,. (23) Marmareke,
Laore-Krephie, may I see the answer to the inquiry
on account of which I am here, may answer be made
to me (24) to everything about which I ask here to-day,
truly without falsehood. Ho! Adael, Aphthe, Kho-
khomole, (25) Hesenmigadon, Orthobaubo, Noere, Sere,
Sere, San-kathara, (26) Ereskhigal, Saggiste, Dodeka-
Mus. Gr. Pap. No. XLVI. 1. 424, et seq.; Wessely, Ephes. Gram., 36,
244-5, 34i, 377-
1. 26. Ereshkigal is the Sumerian goddess of the Underworld, cf. Legge,
P. S. B. A., xxii. 121, lit. 'mistress of the Great Land,' i.e. the infernal
regions; see the myth in Budge and Bezold, Tel-el-amarna Tablets,
No. 82, p. 140; the name is found also in an Assyrian text in R. C.
Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers, No. 267 (from
whose hand is the beautiful staff, (14) who created deity,
deity not having created him, come into the midst of
this fire that is here before thee, he of Boel, Aniel
(15) [ cause me to see the business about
(16) and do thou { give strength to the eyes of the boy
jwhich I am inquiring here to-day, let it be seen, let
(who has my vessel, to cause him to see it, and to his
fit be heard ) _ . ..
1 , . . O great god Sisihout,
lears to cause him to hear it,J
(17) f before me and cause my eyes
(18) Akhremto, come in ( into the midst of this flame,
(17) to be opened to everything for which I pray here to-day,
(18) O great god that is upon the hill of (Atugi) Gabaon,
Khabaho, Takrtat.' You recite this (19) until the light
appear. When the light appears, you turn round (?), you
recite this spell-copy a second time again. Behold the
spell-copy also (?) of the summons (20) that you recite :
' Ho ! speak to me (bis) Thes, Tenor, the father of eter-
nity without end, the god who is over the whole earth,
Salkmo, (21) Balkmo, Brak, Nephro, Bampre, Brias,
Sarinter, Melikhriphs, (22) Largnanes, Herephes, Me-
phrobrias, Pherka, Phexe, Diouphia,. (23) Marmareke,
Laore-Krephie, may I see the answer to the inquiry
on account of which I am here, may answer be made
to me (24) to everything about which I ask here to-day,
truly without falsehood. Ho! Adael, Aphthe, Kho-
khomole, (25) Hesenmigadon, Orthobaubo, Noere, Sere,
Sere, San-kathara, (26) Ereskhigal, Saggiste, Dodeka-
Mus. Gr. Pap. No. XLVI. 1. 424, et seq.; Wessely, Ephes. Gram., 36,
244-5, 34i, 377-
1. 26. Ereshkigal is the Sumerian goddess of the Underworld, cf. Legge,
P. S. B. A., xxii. 121, lit. 'mistress of the Great Land,' i.e. the infernal
regions; see the myth in Budge and Bezold, Tel-el-amarna Tablets,
No. 82, p. 140; the name is found also in an Assyrian text in R. C.
Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers, No. 267 (from