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_Samsu-iluna_, king of Babylon, 56; builds sanctuary of Belit, 56; builds Dur-padda, sacred to Ramman, 158; his pantheon, 162; builds wall of Zakar in Nippur, 172; builds wall of Lugal-mittu in Nippur, 172.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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For re-corn - mining any person when a habeas corpus is brought to his relief, At. Bd.; for summon* iog a jury, 4». 8c**.; on every copy of a mittu mas, 1*. 3d j for every mike a prisoner shall be removed on a habeas corpus, la. 2d.; for re - moving a prisoner by habeat corpus, where no mileage is paid, per day, 4*.
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On the other hand, it is possible -- as Dr. Lutz suggested to me -- that _mittu_, despite the manner of writing, is identical with _mittú_, the name of a divine weapon, well-known from the Assyrian creation myth (Tablet
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891
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