Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

A FRAGfMEN~T OF A NIPPURIAN JITUTRGY. 249
24 Thy word unto as many as are evilly disposed thou wilt not 'give.
25 Oh lord......in thy, city cause to go away.
26 Father of Nippur in the way, in the way overthrow them.
27 Lamentation; eleventh section.
28 May the voice of the bull cryinag -over all lands return to its place.
29 A lamentation.
30 It is ended "Exalted one, -overpowering bull,
each tablet, nishi im-gid-da, copy' of a long tablet, which probably
means that the texts, having been provided with a Semitic -interlinear
translation, could not be easily writte n on a single tablet and so the
scribes divided it upon several smnaller tablets.
Line 11 of the reverse of the VIROLLEAUD tablet corresponds to line
three of tablet five of muten-nu, nunu-.- girn SBP 150 == SBH 85. From
this text the beginning of SBH 85 may be restored as follows
I [96-ab u"-mu-un tug-en-ne] ul-[li-ef]
2 [ga]-ab tug-[mal bar tug-mal-da lag'-ge-en]
3 me-en-ne ga-ab )U-[mufl-un mu-un-tug-e-en-ne ui-li-es'
4 96~-ab an-na gab d. agar-NI-dug mu-un-[tug-e-en-ne ut-ii-eg1
"cThe heart of the lord we will pacify with praise.
To pacify the heart, to pacify the soul let us go.
We will pacify the heart of the lord with praise.
The heart of Ann, the heart of Mardnk we will pacify with, praise.
This entire liturgy obv. 64 lines to rev. 38 mnust be understood asfollows:
"The god XI we will pacify etc.
The translation in SBP imust be corrected accordingly.
1. For nasdhu copy, v. BM 22457 rev, end, imurmt i-is-su-.ha- am, 'he read
and copied it'1. The text contains a short dedication to inninii by Kurigalzu, hence
there can be no question of I'excerpting', the accepted meaning assigned to
'nasahu.