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Footnotes

1.

see Alan R. Millard, “King Og’s Iron Bed—Fact or Fancy?” BR 06:02.

2.

Dr. Barnett’s paper in Ancient Anatolia (endnote 3) indicates a total of 81 known figures, seven of which are polydactylous.

Endnotes

1.

Eric Leichty, The Omen Series Sðumma Izbu (Texts from Cuneiform Sources VI) (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Austin, 1970), p. 59.

2.

H.-V. Herrmann, Die Kessel der orientalisierenden Zeit (Olympische Forschungen VI) (Berlin: Walter de Grüyter, 1966).

3.

Richard D. Barnett, “Sirens and Rephaim,” in Ancient Anatolia: Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellinck, ed. J. V. Canby et al. (Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986), pp. 112–120.