Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

SUMERIANS AND SEMITES IN I3ABYLONIA 161
a-a dingir mu-uil-El li-da'-da maga mu-e-du sag-e gi-gur2
ba- e e-niisag3
Li-Mu-un1 ka-ua.-tg-ga gis-ma4 gisgala ga uin-ci gub gi-gur til'il
a-a dingir mu-ni-i~l sag-zid sag, Jul-la 'Sn ti-ba-ni-ib-ag
10 nigin XXV mn-bL-im5
ir-sem-ma 5
1. li-d~a, var. of li-dun == zamaru.
2. Var. of gigur qaqcjccaru.
3. Sign is REC 93.
4. For gi&-ma, an aliment, of. God. Cyl. B III 19. As a plant are gig-ma
'flowers of the gi&-ma ' KING, Magic no' 12, 5; MEISSNER', Su~ppi. pl. 3 rev. 3
after gi&-len ' wine '. ZIMMERN in Z D MG LVJIJ 952 lit~tu ' fig ' and again in his
Neujahrsfest p. 135 Anm. 12.
5. For mu bi-im ='it is its name ', cf. Babyl. I 230. In CT V 6 mu-bi-im
has the meaning lines as hero; the former translation is the true one. The
meaning lines is derived fromt the ancient idea that each line should containa sacred name of the god.
6. er,~emma literally 'tears of the heart ', hence ' lament ', does not apply
to the contents of this poem. The translation I'ps~alm 'is perhaps the most,
suitable.

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