RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE KEALM OF ASSYRIOLOGY, ETC. 167 



The character represented by the star may be a variant of 

 either 9 gfiM or -^fy. 



Page 132. The wedge-text of the phrase beginning with 

 line 6 is as follows : — 



>yj4| 5^ %] 3| Nam-sig su-ba The construction * 

 *t£ JL^ Ty ^Hf" mu " g a l " am being in hand 



j|=y «~£>JPL ^fT S^fcT ki-maga um k a the high place 



^DU! *J- y al - mi - gar of the city was unoccupied 



^pf *f- *^\ uru-ki nu-gin a funeral pile was unset 



Zr8 %] *?y * */- ^T gal-e* nu-gin \ the minister performed* 



*~~ *-.'.. A y l0i the service* larnen- 



ft <V- *^ Jfffl 4^T in-nu-ta-e [ tatim hg gam not fortK 



^ yy^f T y y ^1— J^y y^ ^J— ama iri-gi iri i/t<? mother of lamentation 



+j- i^^y £^M nu-ne-gu uttered not lamentation 



•^f *~y *^n ki-sur-ra in the boundary 



^k**- %Y ^y ^f £^M Lagasa(D.S.)-ka of Lag as 



J^,. lu-di-tug a man making judgment 



Jpy >y(^ d^^y $1 "jbT ki-nam-erima-su on tf/jg p/ace <?/ £/<« oa/A 



>jA f^y lu nu - gin set not a man 



*£H lu - hur - ra a man pledging 



£^y ^^^if^y *jA ^^" e lu gu-nu-taga the house of a man claimed 

 not 



The words marked with a star are doubtful, and the whole 

 translation must be regarded as somewhat tentative. 



Page 133, line 4, and note*. The words in the original 

 literally mean "He opened everything to him" (GAL-muna- 

 KA DA ), the compound separable verb GAL-KADA being 

 equivalent^ to petti, "to open." The name Amalu™ (line 5) 

 is written ^ jy^j V( 1^ Ama-a-lum — a combination of syllables 

 foreign to Semitic Babylonian or Assyrian, who would rather 

 have written }] ^y }] <££ (<^Xf), A-ma-a-lum (-man). 

 Saku or Usuhi-trees (lines 15-16) were hardly to be regarded 

 as a foreign product, as a plantation of them is mentioned on 

 B. 78 f as existing at Tel-Sifr, or at Warka in the time of 



t Strassruaier's Altbabylonische Vertriige avs Warka. 



