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Sagilla, temple, 158, 15. E-sagila, 160, 5; 166, 5; 166, 11.
sahatu, be astounded, 216, 10. Arabic sahita.
saiahatu, desire, comfort, 216, 18.
sakapu, fell. I2 issakpu, 215, 30.
salûtu, enmity, 199, 27.
Samas, god, 197, 4:8; 198, 10:13; 199, 25:31.
Samas-sum-ukin, king. Incantations for, 193-200; 199, 23.
Samsuiluna, king, 151.

SAR-DI-DA, a relic, 133, 37.
Serpent adversary, 183, 21; 148, 12.
Seven, sacred number. Seven gods, 196, 30.
Ship, in legend, 113, 2.
Silsirsir, a chapel.
Sin, god. Hymn to, No. 19.
sippu, threshold, 219, 13:18.
Sippar, city, 158, 10; 160, 5; 166, 19.
sirgidda, long song, 140, 54.
Siris, daughter of Ninkasi, 144.
Siriskas, daughter of Ninkasi, 144.
Siriskasgig, daughter of Ninkasi, 144.
sirsagga, first melody, 117, 28; 139, 48.
SU-AN = kat ili, 194, 12. See also SU-dINNINI, 194, 12.
SU-NAM-ERIM-MA, 194, 13.
SU-NAM-LU-GAL-LU, 194, 13.
subura, earth, 175, 3.
su-ud, sú-ud-ám, epithet of goddess of Suruppak, 177, 10 and note 4.
suhuru, hair (?), 215, 23.
sukkal-zid, title of Nebo, 163, 10.

Sulpae, god, No. 16 II 22.
Sumer, land, 113, 21; 114, 11; 136, 2.
sumugan, title of Girra, 177, 12 and note; 179, 3.
T.
Tablet of fates, 132 n. 3.
Tammuz, ancient ruler, 208. Liturgy to, 191. Other references, 126; 208;
131, 20.
tapasu, seize, capture, II2 uttappis, 215, 31.
temeru, cook, 196, 35.
Tigris, river, 183, 12.
Tummal, land, 190, 9; 191, 10.
U.
ud, spirit, word, 150, 1:4; 158, 16; 159, 17:24.
ul-al-tar, 191 n. 6.
ulinnu, girdle cord, 195, 20.
Ulmas, temple of Anunit, 158, 13; 166, 3.
Ur, city, 134, 21; 137, 6. Lamentation for, 150. Other references, No.
19, 4:7:8:16:28: Rev. 5; 151, 3.
Ur-azag, king of Isin (?), 140 n. 2.
Ur-Engur, king of Ur, 126 ff.
urinu, spear (?), 173, 3.

ursaggal, epithet for Ninurasa, 165, 11. For Enbilulu, 170, 5.
usumgal, 117, 33.
Z.
zâbu, flow. li-zu-bu, 198, 16. Cf. gàm = za'ibu, mitirtu, words for canal,
SAI. 691-3.
zag-sal, liturgical note, 103 f. No. 21 end.
za-am, 138, 34; 139, 38; 140, 56.
zênu, be enraged, II1 uzinu-inni, 197, 6.
ZI-TAR-RU-DA = nikis napisti, 194 n. 6.

DESCRIPTION OF TABLETS
Number in this volume. 1
Museum number. 7771
Description.
Dark brown unbaked tablet. Three columns. Lower edge slightly
broken. Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to facilitate the
holding of the tablet. H. 7 inches: W. 6 1/2; T. 1 1/2. Second tablet of
the Epic of Gilgamish.

NOTES
[1] Ni. 13981, published by Dr. Poebel in PBS. V, No. 2.
[2] The local Bêl of Erech and a bye-form of Enlil, the earth god. Here
he is the consort of the mother goddess Ninsun.

[3] Tammuz is probably a real personage, although Dumu-zi, his
original name, is certainly later than the title Ab-ú, probably the oldest
epithet of this deity, see Tammuz and Ishtar, p. 8. Dumu-zi I take to
have been originally the name of a prehistoric ruler of Erech, identified
with the primitive deity Abu.
[4] See ibid., page 40.
[5] Also Meissner's early Babylonian duplicate of Book X has
invariably the same writing, see Dhorme, Choix de Textes Religieux,
298-303.
[6] Sign whose gunufied form is read aga.
[7] The standard text of the Assyrian version is by Professor Paul
Haupt, Das Babylonische Nimrodepos, Leipzig, 1884.
[8] The name of the mother of Gilgamish has been erroneously read
ri-mat ilatNin-lil, or Rimat-Bêlit, see Dhorme 202, 37; 204, 30, etc. But
Dr. Poebel, who also copied this text, 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 kakabê; 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.