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[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] namastû a late form which has followed the analogy of restû in
assuming the feminine t as part of the root. The long û is due to analogy
with namassû a Sumerian loan-word with nisbe ending.
[26] Room for a small sign only, perhaps A; maiak? For mâka, there,
see BEHRENS, LSS. II page 1 and index.
[27] Infinitive "to shepherd"; see also Poebel, PBS. V 106 I, ri-ia-ú,
ri-te-ia-ú.

[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 masû, to forget, is nasâ, 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, kakkîtu(?).
[47] Cf. e-pi-sa-an-su-nu libâru, "May they see their doings," Maklu
VII 17.
[48] For sakin-sum.
[49] On the verb nâku 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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