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27. Mi, 'night.' Innanna, the goddess Istar in Sumerian. Mura, 

 ' to enclose.' Didi, another form of the reduplicate root dudu, ' to go, 

 come.' 



28. I§, the non-dialectic form of ag or a^a, 'he who, that which.' 

 Asaga, 'bright, pure.' Ra, postposition. 



30. Tg-gi for ig-gina, Semitic kittu, 'that which is fixed,' 'right, 

 justice.' Bara, 'side.' Gen [gz-en), 'to be firm,' the same root as gi. 

 Im-iata, reduplicate root ta, with verbal prefix. Ta means ' in, at, with, 

 from.' 



31. Zara, 'barrier,' Dudu. UL-UL, with this pronunciation, 

 probably means 'to overthrow.' Nu-uvila is probably for nu-i?7ila, root la, 

 once, according to Brvinnow, Classified List, rendered dmdru, 'to see.' 



33. Nina, ' lady, sister.' 



Column II. 



1. Gin = m agaru, ^ to obey.' Eres-i-gala = Eres-ki-gala, m \h& 'Descent 

 of Istar,' and elsewhere. Compare p. 9. 



2. Zt(, 'to know,' heie and in the forms na-zti, naf?i-zu, ul-na?n-zu, 

 nmn-zu, nane-ztc in the succeeding lines. Alen, suffix, 'I am.' Tu, 'to 

 enter.' 



3. Ru. UL, with this pronunciation, is rendered by napdku, 'to break 

 through.' Da, a termination. 



4. Na is a variant of the negative nu. 



5. Igi, ' eye, to see.' Da, a termination. 



7. Zarum is apparently a variant oi zara, ' barrier.' Gigi, reduplicate 

 oi gi, ' to stand firm,' hence, possibly, 'to hinder.' A«r, ' country.' Bi, 

 demonstrative pronoun. 



9. Babar, probably not the pronetic spelling of babbara, ' to be bright,' 

 etc., but for ba-bara, from bara, ' high,' with the verbal prefix ba. 



11. Mi, 'night.' Da-du is possibly for dab-du (line 15), ' to shut 

 Dadu may, however, be the diadectic form of kada, ' to forsake,' or du, ' to 

 walk, wander,' with prefix. Dirisi may be either a longer form of diri, 

 'gloom,' or two words, diri-si, for diri-su (also written -se), 'in gloom.' 

 But compare Col. V., lines 27 and 29. 



12, 13, 34. Kasanmen, kasamnana, and kasainen all seem to come from 

 the same root, with special suffixes, and have therefore been translated by 

 the same word. For kasansasa (read dug-sa-an-sa-sa), Zimmern, in his 

 Babylonische Busspsalmen, p. 70, footnote, suggests the meaning ' demolishes 

 him, whisks him away,' so that kasa or dusa for {dugsd) would probably 

 mean ' captured,' and may be the latter part of dikasa or didusa in Col. I,, 

 lines 2 and 4. 



