78 THEO. G. PINCHES : ON CERTAIN INSCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS 



1 2. Magritnm, from the context, "message " or "command," 

 as the thing- to be obeyed. Probably from magaru, " to obey." 



13. Sulla, imperative plii. kal. otsaldlu, '• to spoil," whence 

 also snllat, " spoil of." 



14. Suhha is imperative pin. piel of saM, meaning " to 

 destroy." Supri.'td is imperative plu. shaphel of pardsu, " to 

 divide." Sakkp I have rendered as plural, but it may be 

 singular (see rev. 1. 2i:>). The meaning " enclosm-e " seems to 

 be that required by the context. 



17. Prof. Sayce regards a fresh paragraph beginning 

 Inurn, "when" (cf. rev., lines 2, (5, etc.), as having begun 

 with this line. 



18. U?'ri(l is from urddu ( = uiarddu), probaby aor. of the 

 pael. Sediissu is apparently for sedil-su, and, if so, is probably 

 the plural of S('dii, with suffixed pronoun. This phrase 

 occurs also in lines 3, 7, and (25) of the reverse. 



19. U-sah-hi is the most probable completion of the 

 word, after which Prof. Sajce suggests the restoration 

 usurta-su (" he destroyed its barrier"). 



20. t^y 'b>^^ I^Wj at(d)-gi-gi is the Akk. equivalent 

 of iiialiku, '• ruler." Prof. Sayce suggests that pakid refers to 

 the god Nebo (cf. rev., 1. 2,5). Issnh is from nasdhu, " to 

 remove," and katimtu'" from katdmu, " to cover." 



21. >->^ >"I]L4fff ^yy^y >^y, D.P. Ennun-dagalla, or, better, 

 Ennuna-dagala, apparently means "the watchman ot the 

 broad place." 



22. The singular illahis with the plural noun tldni here 

 and in line 26 is noteworthy. 



23. Inus is apparently from ndsu. " to totter,' " shake," 

 and seems to be transitive, though its noun ynay, possibly, be 

 assati, and, if so, we have here another example of a singular 

 verb with a plural noun. 



24. UkkiS. This can hardly be the dkdsu (tl^iD^), " to put 

 an end to," of Delitzsch's HandwOrterhuch, but must be from 



tl?31, the Arab. ? " to diminish," the noun from which, 



? is explained as "the station where the moon is 



eclipsed." It is with this meaning that the Babylonian 

 word is apparently connected. 



25. The first word should apparently be completed 

 unid. Nisakku is of Akkadian origin, and means " he who 

 (m) is head " (^ag). 



