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patesi of Kish presented a large sandstone vase to Inlil of Nippur, shows us that tem- 

 porarily he was even in possession of an important part of Kengi, including the sanc- 

 tuary of Btl. Enshagsagana himself waged war against his northern enemy, and 

 presented the spoil of this expedition to Inlil of Nippur. 1 The same was done by an- 

 other king of Kengi, who lived shortly before or after. He infested Kish and defeated 

 or even captured its king, Enne-Ugun.- " His statue, his shining silver, the utensils, 

 his property," he carried home victoriously, and deposited in the same sanctuary as his 



was bom unlo him, and the happy father presented a vase to the temple. Cf. Jensen in Schrader's K. B. Ill, part 1, 

 p. 25, II (where Jensen and Amiaud, however, misread the name of the donor. As the separating lines clearly prove, 

 the name is not TJr-Enlil but L'r-Enlil-dabi-dudv). No. 113 reads: 1. D'W"'Mn-lil-ra 2. Uruna-badabi 3. sang 

 (Amiaud et Mechineau, Tableau, No. 134) dingirEnlil 4. gan-tilla-shu 5. Ur-Simug (Amiaud et Mechineau, I. c, No. 

 117) -ga (<<i , >>9ir£imvga = Ea.\) 6. dubsar ada 7. e^wirLn-hlkage 8. ga-tila-shu 9. nam-ti 10. ama dug(sic!)-zi-shu 

 11. nam-ti 12. dam-dvmu-riashu 13. a mu-na-shvb, "ToNinlil Urunabadabi, priest of Inlil, for abundance of life, 

 and Ur-Siniuga ('servant of Ea'), scribe of the ada of the temple of Inlil (ada e identical with the frequent title of 

 the later contract literature abu lilil), for abundance of life presented it for the life of his (distributive = their !) good 

 and faithful mother, and for the life of his (their) wife and child." Apparently two brothers who held two different 

 positions in the temple of Bel presented together this beautiful vase for their mother, wives and children. Cf. 

 also No. 106: 1. l>i-»3ir]!iin-d[iri~\ dvg-ga 2. Mn-en-nu (cf. Lvgal-en-nu, No. 114, 5) 3. ga-til-la-shu 4. a-mu- 

 na[-s7iub], "ToBa'u Ninenmi((or en-nun = na>aru !) presented it for abundance of life." My constant transliteration 

 of the postposition " ku" by shu needs a word of explanation. I believe with Jensen, that no Sumerian postposition 

 ku exists, and that the old Babylonian sign of this postposition transliterated by ku is rather identical with the charac- 

 ter in Part I, PI. 1, 13 ; PL 2, 13, which I identified as shu (I. c, pp. 13 f). 



1 Cf. Nos. 91 and 92, which supplement each other: 1. [Dingir E]n-lil-la 2. En-shag sag-an-na 3. nig-ga Eishki 

 4. gul shag 5. a-mu-na-shub, " To Inlil E. presented the property of Kish, wicked of heart (referring to Kish)." Iu 

 connection with this text I call attention to the fact that the word namrag "spoil," the etymology of which was ob- 

 scure (cf. Part I, p. 21) is purely Sumerian, being composed of nam-\-ri-\-ag (V R. 20, 13c), corresponding to Assyrian 

 shallatu shalcdu (cf. Delilzsch, Assyr. Gram., gg 73, 132), a synonym of shallatu " spoil." 



2 Several vase fragments mention this event, hut the whole inscription cannot yet be restored from them. Nos. 

 103-)- 110 belong to the same vase. Nos. 104 and 105, which contain portions of the same inscription and supplement 

 part of the text, belong to two other vases. The fragment of a fourth vase, No. 102, contains part of the same inscription. 

 For C. B. M. 9297, which has remnants of 1. 1-4 of No. 102, agrees in thickness, material and characters of writing 

 entirely with Nos. 103 -(-110 and belonged doubtless to the same vase. No. 105 had a briefer inscription than the rest. 

 Of the longer inscription the beginning is wanting, the first preserved portion, No. 103, is to be supplemented by No. 

 104, to be continued by No. 102, 2, and (after a break of several lines) to be closed with No. 110. I restore the in- 

 scription as follows : 1. [DmgirEn.uiia 2. [Ivgal lvr-hvr-ra 3. Name of the king 4. [en Ei-en-gi'] 5. (No. 103 begins) 

 [lv]gal .... 6. vd ai>wr[En-lil-K] 6. ma-nani-gun-a (cf. No. 86, 1-5) 7. Eishki 8. mu-gvl 9. En-ne-TJgun (Biiin- 

 now, List 8862, cf. Jensen in Z. A. I, p. 57f.) 10. Ivgal EishM 11. mu-dur 12. Ivgal erim srisi'BA~NM-ka-ge 13. lugal 

 Ehhki-ge 14. vru-na ga (written phonetically -=gon, Bninnow, list 4039, for cf. No. 113, 4, with 8 and No. 112, 4) 



gul 15. nig-ga 16 HI 17-18 (or more) wanting 19. mu-ne-gi 20. alana-bi (observe the peculiar sign for bi in 



Nos. 105 and 110 !), 21. azag-zagina-bi 22. gish nigga-bi 23. dingirEn-Ul-la 24. [E~\n-W-i-shu 25. a mu-na-shub ["To 

 Inlil, lord of lands, N. N, lord of Shumer (king of Erech)] — when he had looked favorably upon him (=nashu sha 

 eni, Briinnow, List 10545), he infested Kish, he cast down (or bound? cf. Jensen in Schrader's A'. B. Ill, parti, 

 p. 48) Enne-Ugun, king of Kish ; the king of the hordes of ff''s''BAN^, king of Kish — his city teeming with ma- 

 lignity, the property .... he burned, .... he brought back, and his statue, his shining silver, the utensils (isu — 

 anu, II B. 23, 9 e.f.), his property, he presented unlo Inlil of Nippur." The reading of the name of the king of Kish 

 is of course only provisional. He was apparently a Semite. 



