26 Pinches, Hymns to Taimmiz in the Manchester Museum. 



19. Tumu-giba, ' Son of the flute,' is evidently one of the titles of 

 Tammuz. I have not been able to find it in the lists. Upon the expression, 

 see p. 9, note %. 



20. Ama-elaggi also does not occur elsewhere, though future discoveries 

 may reveal it. The value of elag or ellag for the character written in the 

 form of a square is given by the tablets 80-11 -12, 9 and 1488. It is 

 rendered by the Semitic kubbu . . , perhaps to be completed ktibbutu, 

 which is one of its Semitic renderings. In this sense it probably means 

 'to honour,' suggesting for Ama-elaggi the meaning of 'honourable 

 mother,' or ' mother of honour.' 



21. Usu-gala, usually written mum-gala, means ' unique + great.' A 

 is apparently the lengthening, na the possessive pronoun of the third person 

 singular, and ra the postposition 'to, for,' etc., here, apparently, 'against.' 



22. Andu, pronominal prefix, with root du, ' to go, come.' Enneten, 

 restored by a careful comparison with the next line, is composed of the 

 verbal prefixes en-ne, and the root ten, meaning ' to be calm, satisfied, at 

 one's ease.' 



23. I have regarded Nana as being shortened from Innana, one of the 

 names of Istar. 



24. Si-wmmna-gi is composed of si, the dialectic form of zi, ' life,' 

 umunna, ' people,' av\d.gi, the genitive suffix. 



25. Dusu is one of the non-Semitic values of the group GATU, the 

 meaning of which is ' to raise.' Diisi may therefore be a form of this word, 

 meaning 'exalted.' Umig is the name of Erech, Semitic Babylonian Uruk. 



26. Mil, meaning 'name,' indicates naturally the deity whose name was 

 worshipped in a city, so that dimmer mita must be rendered ' tutelary 

 divinity,' or something similar. 



27. Agu is one of the words for 'crown, halo.' 



30. Egi seems to be one of the words equivalent to rubu, ' prince.' 



31. Ua is the usual word for 'to nourish.' 



Column IV. 



1. The character du has been given its usual transcription when it means 

 ' t go,' but the character ra, which follows, maybe its phonetic complement, 

 in which case the two must be read together as arra (ara), a dialectic 

 synonymous root. 



2. Agu, ' crown, halo,' etc. Saba, ' heart, middle.' Utt, possibly for 

 ra, ' to, iu.' 



3. Ul-mudanena, apparently the root ul, ' to be bright, to shine,' and a 

 cluster of suffixes. Munnan is the longest suffix of this kind hitherto found, 

 whilst among the prefixed particles, which are analogous, mudan- occurs, 



