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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...see Zimmern, Iltar und $altu, p. 6. In all the known examples of this liturgical note the interlude of two or three lines is separated from the ki-lub-gu by lines. Here the interlude or choral.reflection apparently ends the liturgy, which is contrary to all known rules of liturgical practice, ki-lub-gu, the ordinary word for "strophe" (Uru, see Zimmern, ibid. p. 5), is followed by da which occurs only here. The word is often shortened to ki-lub, and ki-lu, see BL. p. xlv. 2 The city Ur is meant and the reference to an usurper in Obv. 8 leads us to suppose that the calamity referred to is none other than the invasion of the Elamites who seized Ibi-Sin. last of the rulers of the dynasty of Ur. A lamentation on this event was published in my Historical and Religious Texts 6-8; according to that text Ibi-Sin was taken captive to Elam. Statue 54 and 62. Short variants will be found in Poebel., BE. VI, p. 7o, to which add Poebel, No. 26. mu Sa-am-su-i-lu-na lugal-e dbabbar dmarduk-e-nebi-da-lge nig-d'im-dim-ma-bi al-in-na-an-du-us-dm'-alam sub-sub-be alad-gushkin-ds-ds-bi-ta e-babbar igi dbabbarsu e-sag-il3 igi Jmarduk-su) ki-gub-ba-ne-ne mi-ni-ingi-na, "Year when Samsuiluna the king, whose deeds Shamash and Marduk have extolled, a statue in an attitude of prayer and animal statues of gold upon their foundations in Ebabbar before Shamash and in Esagila before Marduk established." 1 For this peculiar form of the conjunction bi-da or bi-ta attached to the plural ending e-ne, see also e-ne-bi-ta in the date formula of the 34th year of Hammurapi. ge marks the subject. 1 This compound verb is formed from the root al, lofty, and the intensive suffix dug du; uI is the plural inflection and dm the sign of a dependent phrase. al is connected with il = ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236107373
- ISBN 13 9781236107374
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages82
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