22 Pinches, Hymns to Tamviuz in the Manchester Museum. 



NOTES UPON THE WORDS. 

 Column I. 



1. The usual Sumerian word for 'place,' ki, is restored from line 3. 

 Ri, in the dialect, is once rendered ' to pasture.' Menie is regarded as the 

 plural of me, 'voice,' etc., a reduplicate like kurkura from kur. Col. V., 

 last line. Ma is possibly a suffix. Du means ' to go " — ttim, gin, and ara 

 are also possible readings. 



2. Dikasa, if it may be read, as is possible, didusa, possibly means 'to 

 take,' Semitic kasddu. Dinig is equivalent to the Semitic sapsu, 'strong 

 one.' Mea means ' where,' and si may be another way of writing si or sig 

 (the character named igi-gunu), and if this be the case, the whole would be 

 a variant of meam-si, which is translated ali sA, ' where is he ? ' 



5. Has-mara seems to mean ' to make destroyed,' perhaps = ' to annihi- 

 late.' Tammuz became non-existent for Istar when the queen of the under- 

 world took him. 



6. A7n is one of the words meaning ' lord.' Hili, ' to rejoice, jubilate.' 

 Al-ma are regarded as prefixes to du. 



7. Diri is possibly a preposition — it is once given as equivalent to Sli, 

 'over.' Mutina, 'husband,' Gu, 'to speak, command,' etc. Salla, 'to 

 be broad,' hence sallaba is probably for salla-bi-a, 'in its fulness.' 



8. Gu-mudapad, possibly from gu, ' to speak,' and pada, ' to call out,' 

 mti-da being prefixed. Ella, ' glorious, clear.' A-siidi is possibly from sud, 

 ' to be distant.' 



9. Zu, 'to know,' with the prefix an, 'he (or she) who knows.' Dibba 

 (dibd), 'to take.' Su-nemala is from su-niala, 'to bow down, subjugate,' 

 followed by dim, ' to make. ' 



10. Mu-ne-in-mar-bi, ' his name-making,' from mu, ' name,' and mar, 

 'to make.' Me-in, prefixes, bi, pronominal sufiix. Gi, ' to return.' 



11. ^, 'to speak.' Z?/, 'man, he who.' Gala, ' gx&2.\..' iV^ar«, probably 

 for nara, 'singer.' Ag-dila, from ag, ' he who,' and dili, 'to record.' 



12. Ama, 'mother.' Stc, 'hand, recompense, benefit,' also 'power.' 

 Ul, 'joy,' also 'magnificence.' Silim, 'peace, well-being.' Sisa, 'to 

 direct.' iV«, negation. Pil, ' to rest.' 



15. Gigiga, reduplicate^/, 'to return,' with termination ^a. 



16. Ba, 'to grant, give.' Hendu, precative of du, 'to go, come.' 



19. Ag-gu or aga-gu, 'he who calls.' The character ag in line 19 is 

 written less fully than in line 21. 



20. Hula, ' evil.' 



25. Ka, 'mouth.' Ta, postposition. 



