ASSYRIOLOGISTS have had more success in identifying the major parts of the liver of the sheep than in identifying those of its lungs. To be sure, one is still puzzled by markings on the liver such as mehis pan ummdn nakri (defeat of the vanguard of the enemy army), nTdi kussi (base of the throne), tarbas amiiti (cattlefold of the liver), and the like. Nevertheless, its major parts, such as the gall bladder (martu), the caudate lobe (ubdnu), the umbilical fissure (bdb ekallim), etc., are clearly discernible on the liver models.' This is not the case with the lungs. Of its major lobes, for example, only the uban hanf qablitu can, with any measure of certainty, be identified with the accessory lobe of the (right) lung.2 Other than that, the identification of all other major parts of the lungs remains a subject for speculation. An attempt to identify the major lobes, for example, was made by Mary Hussey.3 Her conclusions must, however, remain nothing more than tenuous.4 For the present, we must continue to refer to the parts of the lungs by their conventional names, such as the donkey of