32 Pinch ES, Hymns to Taminuz in the Manchester Museum. 



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6. Nm-mu, or eres-mu, 'my lady.' Zigane '\% iiom. zi^a, 'to remove.' 

 Barua. The root of this word is ru, ' to return,' with the prefix ba. 



7. E, the Semitic qabil, means 'to speak.' Nigin, 'to enclose,' also 

 'to turn again.' Lu, 'man, he who.' Hidane, a doubtful word. 



8. A, the usual word for 'water.' Mi, 'night,' frequent in this text. 

 Ana, 'who,' according to Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. iv., 

 pi. II, line 16. Nega-su, apparently a noun with the postposition /?«, 'to.'' 

 Nega or Negae is explained, loc. cit., pi. 5, line 66 ff., as being equivalent to- 

 Urru, ' day.' Mudaru. The root rti, with the prefixes mu-da. 



9. Kurra-bi-ri is construed as ' to his land,' bi being the pronominal 

 suffix 'his,' and ri for ra, ' to.' /"aj-- means ' to cage birds,' and might, by 

 extension, be applied to men. The form in-paggi, instead oipagga [paga),. 

 would be analogous to sari in Col. IV., line 10 ff. 



10. Ur-la is explained in the lists by iihhuru, ' to be left behind,' or 

 something similar. Murgu is given as the equivalent of padA sa dweli, ' to 

 spare, used of a man,' meaning here, possibly, ' to allow to go free.' Tila is- 

 the common Sumerian root for 'to live.' Gin is one of the many values of 

 du in the meanings of ' to go, to come,' etc. 



24. According to Delitzsch, Assyrisches Haiidworterbuch, under lallartu,. 

 ellu is a cry of triumph similar to 'hurrah.' Tara means 'to cut' and 

 ' to decide,' hence, also, to fix one's fate (Semitic sdmu). Gidgiil is the- 

 reduplicate root ^«/, 'to destroy' {dbdtu). Tara gulgtil yionXA. therefore 

 seem to mean ' the ban is utterly destroyed,' or something similar. 



25. As a parallel to elhc, me is also, probably, a kind of exclamation- 

 meaning ' shout,' from 7iie, ' voice, to call out,' etc. En or e^ti, ' lord, as in 

 Col. IV., line 8. It is here ideographically written. This line, like those 

 which follow, has to be completed in accordance with line 34. 



26. Anna is the usual Sumerian way of writing the name of the god of 

 the heavens, Anu. Dimi I take to be the Sumerian root corresponding 

 with the Semitic sandku, 'to draw close to,' 



27. The rendering of an after kasa is difficult to decide, and is perhaps 

 best regarded as a termination to that word, as in Col. II., line 12. 



28. The first half of the first sign is broken away, but what remains 

 suggests the character ne, in which case ne-da may be similar in meaning to 

 neta, 'in this,' meaning, with the following gi, 'return to this place,' or 

 something similar. 



29. Here, as in Col. II., line 15, it is perhaps best to regard igar as 

 indicating an enclosure of some kind. Ra is construed as the postposition 

 meaning ' to.' 



