24 Pl-NCHES, Hymns to Tammiiz in Ihe Manchester Museum. 



14. Ki, 'place.' Ria, 'pasture,' see Col. I., lines i and 3. Lu, 

 'man,' and saga, ' fair '=' fair one.' Gana, 'come,' is elsewhere used as an 

 exclamation, and therefore possibly so here. MiiH for mutina (Col. I., line 

 7, etc.), ' husband.' 



15. Mi-sam is possibly a form of mi-sana, the Semitic sad must, 

 ' midnight.' Muda, ' gloomy,' said of the day, and therefore, by extension, 

 possibly of the night. Igar is probably for ingar, ' an enclosure.' Dab-dii, 

 apparently dii (which may also be read gin), ' to shut in,' the Semitic kalA, 

 with the prefixes da-ab. 



16. El, the same as ella, ' pure, bright.' Pad, pada, ' to call, invoke.' 

 Dur, ' to sit, to dwell.' Ne, ' to rest,' according to the glossary of the 

 Creation-story, Cuneifor7n Inscriptions of W. Asia, vol. v., pi. 21, line 46. 

 Ku, also pronounced su, postposition 'to.' Turn, for duma, as in vol. ii. of 

 the same work, pi. 29, line 28a, ' to go,' with prefix bi. 



17. Ninsue is apparently the present tense of su, 'to increase,' with the 

 prefixes ni and in — ' it he increaseth.' 



34. For kasavien, see above, to lines 12 and 13. Mi^ 'night' or 

 ' darkness. ' Sumuitna is apparently the same word as is used in the account 

 of the evil spirits afflicting the moon, typical of an eclipse. Ma is apparently 

 a suffix. Susugi is somewhat doubtful, on account of the first character not 

 being very clearly written, and adsugi is also a probable reading. Sugi is 

 explained as sebu, 'grey-haired man,' hence the rendering suggested. Ad, 

 ' father,' would strengthen the idea, if that be the true reading of the first 

 character. On the other hand, should the word contain the reduplicate root 

 susu, ' to descend, enter,' susugi-ta would mean ' in descending.' 



35. Kanaga is possibly the common root ' to bolt, seal up.' Si would 

 be the dialectic form of zi, 'life.' Pad, 'to announce,' with^a/a, 'to be,' 

 suggests the rendering ' being announced.' 



Column III. 



4. Mea. One of the many meanings of this word is ' to us.' 



5. Igi-zu, ' thine eye.' Igi is not the dialectic form, which is ine. 



6. Saba-zu, ' thine heart.' Saba dialectic for saga, 



7. Giga, one of the common words meaning ' evil.' 



8. Ne-fea, ' he approacheth,' from te, 'to approach.' Ne is a pronominal 

 prefix. 



9. Ennett-igi, 'it [enne) he {in) hath seen (?^/)— see line 5, and Col. II., 

 lines 5. For zu, ' to know,' see Col. II., lines 2 ff. 



10. For el lu, see Col. II., line 16. Ama, 'mother." Mugib, the 

 dialectical form of nugig, 'hierodule,' an expression applied to the votaries 

 of Istar, and to the goddess herself. Nigin, ' to enclose, assemble ' (paharu). 



