Note 438 — Chapter III
Walter Armstrong translation
M. Oppert has translated this text in full in a work entitled: L'Immortalité de l'Âme chez les Chaldéens (Annales de philosophie chrétienne, vol. viii. 1884), and he has reproduced his version with a few modifications of detail in Fragments Mythologiques (Quantin, 1881, 18mo). M. Halévy has given long extracts from the same document in an article in the Revue des Études Juives (October-December, 1881), entitled: Les Inscriptions peintes de Citium, § 2; he has returned to the same subject in an article in the Revue archéologique (July, 1882), L'Immortalité de l'Âme chez les Peuples sémitiques. We reproduce his translation as the most recent. Herr Schrader has devoted a whole book to the translation and explanation of this same myth (Die Hœllenfahrt der Istar, Giessen, 1874).