Crossword-Solution: IYAR 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The priest thereupon repeats his question to the sun-god: I ask thee, O Shamash! great lord! whether from the 3d day of this month of Iyar, up to the 11th day of the month of Ab of this year, Kashtariti, with his soldiers, whether the Gimirrites, the Manneans, the Medes, or whether any enemy whatsoever will take the said city, Kishassu, enter that said city, Kishassu, seize said city, Kishassu, with their hands, obtain it in their power.

The second, Iyar, is sacred to Ea as the "lord of humanity." Then follows Sin to whom, as the first-born of Bel,[830] the third month, Siwan, is devoted.

Nisan, March 11th or April 11th Iyar, April 11th " May 10th Sivan, May 10th " June 9th Tamuz, June 9th " July 9th Ab, July 9th " August 7th Elul, August 7th " September 5th Tisri, September 5th " October 5th Hesvan, October 6th " November 4th Kislev, November 4th " December 3d Tebet, December 3d " January 2d Sebat, January 3d " February 10th Adar, February 10th " March 12th The charts on the three following pages are used to illustrate the correspondence of the Hebrew months with our own.

Unfortunately the names of the months in the Babylonian text are more frequently destroyed than not, so that we can only be certain in giving Kislev (November-December) as corresponding to the Athriadiya of the Persians, Tebet (December-January) to Anamaka, Iyar (May-June) to Taigarshis.

THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT Being the Fifth “Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture” delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Sunday, April 30, 1922 -------------- Iyar 2, 5682 [Illustration] [Illustration: FRAGMENT OF AN ANCIENT HEBREW PAPYRUS—THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD—DISCOVERED BY PROFESSOR FLINDERS PETRIE.