Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

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ST. LANGDON

inflected in Sumerian, therefore the subject ends in a, the fornx
of Ningi~~zidda everywhere. The noun in apposition has however
ni the direct case. The form with object repeating S' should he
mri-da-an-q,41-9,41 (phone tic for mu-da —ni-).
Dec. Tab). (ihald. No 67 rev. 2 ge-ka-ka pa s'u-na-gatl-la-an — " the
chief scribe has attended to the grain account ". Here both subject
and object are omitted but the dative na is inserted. Literally " he
has put his hand thereunto ". First class.
7. S-i~ u-zid-gjar " to do faithfully "
Gud. St. B VII 7-9 digf-delg-~Ja d-jiingip7-suka-ge gu-zid-i~nmi-gar ~"he executed the orders of Ningirsu faithfully '", literally
he put a faithful hand to the orders of Ningirsu ".Here im is
subj ect, mni repeats the object Au-zid and d~iq-digr-ga is oblique
dative. Interesting is the, double genitive ka-ge, ha oblique and gre
direct. When the construct is oblique, the following genitive is
also oblique, ie. ga or ha. Here ge is for the genitive of nin-girsu
and ha genitive of the compound nin-gi7rsu depending upon the
oblique case diig-d i4g-ga.
Gud. Cyl. A 11 13 ur-sag ma-a duiqa Siu-zid ga-rnu-ra-ab-qar"oh hero, what orders shall I execute for thee faithfully? " mu subject,
ra indicates a dative of interest (for thee) and ab is object repeating
Su-ziW. The same phrase is repeated in Cyl. B 11 19-20 with the
variant verbal form ina-ra-a-gar, ma the obliq~ue form of the m,
class attracted to the vowel of ra.
~U-Zigr — 7adru (BR. 7124) appears to be a case of a compound
in which the original sense of.~u is entirely lost, zig alone may
mean " to rage " (BR. 2318).
IV R 2, 22 c (old edition) Su-zig-ga-A.4'~ nadru perm. " they
rage ".
IV R 24, 33/34 ~u-b~a-an-z1ig (bunnata binfiti) na1ndurat " (the
appearance of the limbs) is ferocious ". The Sumerian of this line
1. meg pl. of verbs is to be read as', eg, oil dependingi on the vowel ending of the
verb. See the writer's article on the sign <TI in RA VI.