Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

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mistress did not smite her face ". First class; na infixe repeats iqina; ni repeats nig. Same passage Gud. St. B IV 12.
69. gar-zz - amaila " spare
CT XVI:32, 168. nu-qrar-ra-zu-i6:: —ana la yamn.ali. gar-_-u =:ida
in YR 50 a 33 =- BR. 1,1989 galu gar-n u-u n-zu-a-ra saq-,ba-an-diib-du~J-a- "(the shameless and destructive one) who cursed the
man who was not aware thereof ". Both verbs in dependent construction ending in a. ra sign of ace. governs gain, object of compound verb saqr-dib-di'g. So I understand the latter verb for sagJ-KA (?)- arairn " curse ". jar has only abstract effect on the
verb z-0u, cf. the n. pr. lugral-qar-za (HUBER, Personennamen, p. 131
and see note 4t gar-znu g —9amdlu here, not idi) means " the king
is merciful "; same name in Tablettes chalde'ennes ine'ites (RA IV
69 ss.) no 3i. Cf. nin-jar-znz and gin-jar-znz-zn, HUBERt, Pp. 144II
and 104 1
7 0. t"levy taxes "; Cf. BR. 11993 nig-_kud-da miksu
'tax "
GuLd. Cyt. B XII 13-1 5 tidu-a-ba... nig-kud-nun-ag-da "for not
levying taxes on the sheep. ba indicating dative object allows
us to put the verb in the first class.
The verb makaisu " tax" occurs in the syllabar entered by
MEISSNEiR SAL under no 301 kud, which renders kasaisu impossible
(BROWN-GEs., cf. Muss-ARN. 538). For miksn, cf. further,niksu
kairi Hamn. Let. 28, 3. Salmanassar freed the city A~~ur from the
rniksni kari, AOF I 404. JOHNS, Ass.-Bab. Lau), p. 202 mniksu
nihiri, cf. p. 206 " ferry-tax ", whence perhaps miksui kairi "'quaytax" (?).
71 T -J<J niq-tdl = nap)arkal " cease;niq-nii-til-Ia,=
la napiarka I R S5 n01 XX 16. BA 1 301 clay peg of Sin-idinnam
1146. tli in this sense is probably a variant of c~< f. BR. 1512.
1. LluBEas book is so arranged as to make it difficult to find his material quickly.
Why fo-eaple, place ni-ni p. i1 a before ninr-a-ha p. 141 h? cin-nin-ni 101 b
before gi nngir-saz. It is surely not necessary to take determiinatives din gir, gatil
sat, etc. into account when arranging Sumerian. words,