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PRAYER FOR RESURRECTION BY CROSS 257

archaic Morite tablet of about 4000 B.c., in mixed Circle and linear Sumerian script, like the Trojan amulets, in Fig. 43.

Fic. 43.—Muru or ‘‘ Amorite’’ archaic tablet of about 4000 B.C. in Circle and Linear Sumerian Script. From Smyrna. (E. A. Hoffman'.)

Note the initial word-sign for “ tomb” is the picture of the ancient barrow of the Indo-Aryans with its finial, called ** thupa” or ‘‘ tope.”” It is said to have been found at the old Hittite sea-port of Smyrna on the 4Zgean to the south of Troy, with prehistoric Hittite rock-gravings and sculptures in its neighbourhood. It contains a beautiful and pathetic prayer for the resurrecting from the dead into paradise of a princess and Sun-priestess of the Bel-Fire cult, named Nina, and who is significantly called therein an “‘ Ari,” ie., “ Aryva-n” and ©“ Muru,”’ ie, “ Mor” or “ Amorite.”’ It invokes the archangel Tas for the aid of the resuscitating ‘‘ Underground Sun” and the ““ Wood ’’-Cross, and reads literally as follows :‘Tomb of the good girl. Master! Hasten unto the Underground Sun (this) vessel of (thy) assembly ! O Tus-a (Mar-Dach), TaS, all perfect Tas ! ‘O Caduceus (-holder) of the Sun take up O Lord, all perfect One, The princess Nina (by) the Wood Mace (Cross) uplifted (in thy) hand ! * See Appendix VI for details.