Note 220 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
The Igigi are designated ideographically as v plus ii, and Hommel (Semitische Völker, p. 491) properly suggests that this peculiar writing points to an earlier use of five as constituting the group. Hommel, however, does not see that neither five nor seven are to be interpreted literally, but that both represent a large round number, and, therefore, also a holy one.