The Epic of Gilgamish | Page 7

Stephen Langdon
has shown that Nin-lil is an erroneous reading for Nin-sun. For Ninsun as mother of Gilgamish see SBP. 153 n. 19 and R.A., IX 113 III 2. Ri-mat ilatNin-sun should be rendered "The wild cow Ninsun."
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to later tablets, probably III or IV.
[10] Rm. 289, latter part of Col. II (part of the Assyrian version) published in HAUPT, ibid., 81-4 preserves a defective text of this part of the epic. This tablet has been erroneously assigned to Book IV, but it appears to be Book III.
[11] K. 2589 and duplicate (unnumbered) in Haupt, ibid., 16-19.
[12] See also Ward, No. 199.
[13] Here this late text includes both variants pasaru and zakaru. The earlier texts have only the one or the other.
[14] For kakab��; b becomes u and then is reduced to the breathing.
[15] The variants have kima kisri; ki-[ma]?-rum is a possible reading. The standard Assyrian texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
[16] Var. da-an
[17] SAM-KAK = ilu, net. The variant has ultaprid ki-is-su-su, "he shook his murderous weapon." For kissu see ZA. 9,220,4 = CT. 12,14b 36, gis-kud = ki-is-su.
[18] Var. nussu for nus-su = nussa-su. The previous translations of this passage are erroneous.
[19] This is to my knowledge the first occurence of the infinitive of this verb, paheru, not paharu.
[20] Text ma?
[21] istanamma > istilamma.
[22] Cf. Code of Hammurapi IV 52 and Streck in Babyloniaca II 177.
[23] Restored from Tab. I Col. IV 21.
[24] Cf. Dhorme Choix de Textes Religieux 198, 33.
[25] namast? a late form which has followed the analogy of rest? in assuming the feminine t as part of the root. The long ? is due to analogy with namass? a Sumerian loan-word with nisbe ending.
[26] Room for a small sign only, perhaps A; maiak? For maka, there, see BEHRENS, LSS. II page 1 and index.
[27] Infinitive "to shepherd"; see also Poebel, PBS. V 106 I, ri-ia-��, ri-te-ia-��.
[28] The text has clearly AD-RI.
[29] Or azzammim? The word is probably an adverb; hardly a word for cup, mug (??).
[30] it is uncertain and ta more likely than us. One expects ittabriru. Cf. muttabrirru, CT. 17, 15, 2; littatabrar, EBELING, KTA. 69, 4.
[31] For sapparu. Text and interpretation uncertain. uttappis II2 from tapasu, Hebrew tapas, seize.
[32] Text ta!
[33] On ekesu, drive away, see Zimmern, Shurpu, p. 56. Cf. uk-kis Myhrman, PBS. I 14, 17; uk-ki-si, King, Cr. App. V 55; etc., etc.
[34] The Hebrew cognate of mas?, to forget, is nasa, Arabic nasijia, and occurs here in Babylonian for the first time. See also Brockelman, Vergleichende Grammatik 160 a.
[35] Probably phonetic variant of edir. The preterite of ederu, to be in misery, has not been found. If this interpretation be correct the preterite edir is established. For the change r > l note also attalah < attarah, Harper, Letters 88, 10, bilku < birku, RA. 9, 77 II 13; uttakkalu < uttakkaru, Ebeling, KTA. 49 IV 10.
[36] Also na-'-[?????-]ma is possible.
[37] The text cannot be correct since it has no intelligible sign. My reading is uncertain.
[38] Text uncertain, kal-lu-tim is possible.
[39] KAK-si.
[40] KAK-si.
[41] Literally nostrils. pitik apunnati-su, work done in his presence(?). The meaning of the idiom is uncertain.
[42] Text ZU!
[43] Text has erroneous form.
[44] Text PA-it-tam clearly!
[45] Omitted by the scribe.
[46] Sic! The plural of kakku, kakk?tu(?).
[47] Cf. e-pi-sa-an-su-nu libaru, "May they see their doings," Maklu VII 17.
[48] For sakin-sum.
[49] On the verb naku see the Babylonian Book of Proverbs �� 27.
[50] The verb la'atu, to pierce, devour, forms its preterite ilut; see VAB. IV 216, 1. The present tense which occurs here as ilut also.
[51] Note BUL(tu-ku) = ratatu (falsely entered in Meissner, SAI. 7993), and irattutu in Zimmern, Shurpu, Index.
[52] "For ipsah."
[53] Sic! hu reduced to the breathing 'u; read i-ni-'u.
[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he attained my front."
[56] IV1 of waladu.
[57] I.e., in the suburb of Erech.
[58] pataku has apparently the same sense originally as bataku, although the one forms its preterite iptik, and the other ibtuk. Cf. also mahasu break, hammer and construct.
[59] The passage is obscure. Here suhuru is taken as a loan-word from sugur = kimmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II1 of saharu is philologically possible.
[60] I.e., an ordinary man.

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