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Our tablet designates not only each section as a kisub but the entire
liturgy as such. This throws some light upon the liturgical notes in the
later interlinear compositions which were largely based upon the classical Sumerian liturgies. These were usually written on six tablets
likewise ruled into sections and designated by ancient formulae. The
last section is called an ersemma and the preceding section a kiMub. In
my Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. XII, I raised the question
as to whether the term kisubim was applied to the preceding section
only or to the entire composition. The new text, which is the first one
yet published of this class, evidently distinguishes between ki-sub
and ki-su-bi-im; the latter form is identical with the former so far as
the root kisub is concerned but adds the verb me " to be,. It is in fact
a complete sentence and should be translated, " it is a lamentation n.
The late liturgies ended properly at this point where an er4emma was
attached as an innovation, evidently with the intention of preserving
the ancient Sumerian simple psalms which had gone out of use, being
abandoned in favour of the long sectional series. kisubim applies to
the whole liturgy1, kisub to a section only.
The new fragment preserves the beginning and the end of a classical
liturgy to Enlil in eleven sections. The note at the end gives the name
of the liturgy as elum gudsun, which corresponds to line 13 of the list
of titles of Enlil liturgies in IV R 53 col. I. In this list the following
titles have been identified with liturgies published in my book. Col. I
5 d. babbar-dim e-ma no. XXI; I 6 uddam kiamus no. IV; I 10 anna
elume no. V; I 11 musten-nu nunuw-dim no. XI; I 12 ur' gul-a-ge (~a
ilu Gula) no. XII; I 46 iammal gu-de-de no. III; I 52 edin sam saggage,
Tammuz I and II, cf. no. III. The lament to Enlil VATh. 246, =
REISNER, SBH 130-3, begins with the title ame amas-a-na =col. I 7.
The series cannot be complete on VATh. 246 for the note al-til does not
appear. [This long tablet has not been divided into sections]. The
Nergal hymn K 4995 in HAIIPT's ASKT 124-5 has the note ame amaX-na
nu al-til which is probably catalogued in col. I 37. Another Nergal

1. See also RADAU, Miscel. Texts, no. 1 rev. end.