i6 Pinches, Hymns to Tammuz in the Manchester Museum. 



26. Shout, lost one of Anu, — come near, lord, husband, the 



spell is destroyed, the spell is destroyed. 



27. Lost one of heaven, come near, lord, my husband, the 



barrier, the spell is destroyed, the spell is destroyed. 



28. Return thou hither(?), the spell is destroyed, the spell is 



destroyed. 



29. Return to (our) domain, my husband, the barrier, the 



spell, is destroyed, the spell is destroyed. 



The remainder of this column may eventually yield 

 to further study, and in that case additional notes upon 

 the text, and corrections of the renderings of the rest of 

 the inscription, will be communicated. Other texts of the 

 same nature and dialectic peculiarities, however, will be 

 necessary to enable this to be done. 



In attempting the translation of the above addresses 

 to Tammuz, I have naturally used, wherever possible, 

 such inscriptions as I am acquainted with of a similar 

 nature. Of special value, as far as they went, were the 

 glossary to the Semitic Story of the Creation, otherwise 

 the Story of Bel and the Dragon^ and the Hymns to 

 Tammuz already known. The latter are mainly published 

 in the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. iv., 

 and naturally furnish valuable material for comparison. 

 The following are renderings of these fragments, which, 

 being sometimes provided with a translation in Semitic 

 Babylonian, show how the people of those early ages 

 understood them : — 



4. The freshet, warrior, lord physician.*! 



5. The freshet, my hero, my god Damu.* 



6. The freshet, son, everlasting lord.* 



7. The freshet, god Naragara, god Sa-diri.* 



8. The freshet, director, lord of supplication(?)* 



* The lines marked thus have no Semitic translation. 

 + The three lines preceding this are too fragmentary to translate. Lines 

 4 to 12 form the refrain to what preceded. 



