Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
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Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
Hymns, Sumerian; Sumerian language -- Texts
5. _ù-mu-un ^dimmer Šis-^ki ṭú-mu sag ^dingir En-lil-lá_
O lord Nannar, chief son of Bêl!
_^dimmer Šis-^ki_ (see line 2).
_ṭu-mu_: ṬU.MU is a syllabic and dialectic form of DUMU (Br. 4069 and
11917). When DUMU stands for _mâru_, “son”, it is supposed to have the
value _du_ (Br. 4081). _ṭu-mu_ is no doubt for _dumu_ and _du_ is a
shortened form of _dumu_. _ṭu_: the sign may be recognized as old
Babylonian appearing in this form in the Code of Ḥammurabi (see also AL.
p. 135, No. 328).
_sag_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 5). _ṭu-mu sag_ must be equal to some such
expression as “first born son”, or “only begotten son”.
_^dingir En-lil-lá_: in line 7, we shall have _^dimmer Mu-ul-lil-ra_ and
in line 18, _^dimmer Mu-ul-lil-li_. _^dingir_ may be preferred to
_^dimmer_ because the sign is a determinative to an EK form. _En-lil-lá_
consists of the god’s name, _En-lil_ (see _Mu-ul-lil_ in Hymn to Bêl,
line 2).
6. _síg-ga-zu-ne síg-ga-zu-ne_
When thou art full, when thou art full,
_síg-ga-zu-ne_ is a _ḥal_-clause equal to _ina malîka_, “in thy
fulness”. _síg_: the sign to which this value is attached is composite.
One element consists of SI whose chief meaning is “fill”. The other
element consists of A which means “water”. SI.A then means “full of
water”, or “fulness”. The sign, called DIRIGU, has two values ending
with _g_; i. e., _dirig_ related to the sign-name and _síg_ which is
quite certainly equal to _malû_ (Br. 3722). _ga_ is a phonetic
complement (see Hymn to Bêl, line 4). _zu_ is a determinate suffix of
the second person (see Hymn to Bêl, line 21). _ne_ is a postposition
equal to _ina_ (see Br. 4602, also _de_ in Hymn to Bêl, line 6).
7. _i-de a-a-zu i-de ^dimmer Mu-ul-lil-ra še-ir-ma-al-la-zu-ne_
When before thy father, before Bêl thou art sovereign,
_i-de_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 6). _i-de_ is a preposition used as a noun
in the construct state, having the meaning of _maḥru_ or _pânu_ and
equal to _ina maḥar_ or _ina pân_.
_a-a-zu_ equals noun _a-a_, plus suffix _zu_. _a-a_ (see Hymn to Bêl,
line 3). _zu_ (see line 6).
_^dimmer Mu-ul-lil-ra_ equals god’s name _^dimmer Mu-ul-lil_, plus
phonetic complement _ra_. _^dimmer Mu-ul-lil_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 2).
_ra_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 3). It might be better to regard _lil-ra_ as
a shortened form of _lil-lá-ra_. _lil_ is quite apt to take the phonetic
complement _lá_, a value of the sign LALLU, while _ra_ is naturally a
postposition.
_še-ir-ma-al-la-zu-ne_ is a _ḥal_-clause equal to “in thy sovereignty”.
_še-ir-ma-al_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 1). _zu-ne_ (see line 6).
8. _a-a ^dimmer Šis-^ki še-ir-ma-al-la-zu-ne gaba zi-ga-zu-ne_
O father Nannar, when thou art sovereign, when thou liftest up thy
breast,
_a-a ^dimmer Šis-^ki_ (see line 2).
_še-ir-ma-al-la-zu-ne_ (see line 7).
_gaba_ equals _irtu_, “breast”, (Br. 4470). We have had _gaba_ as an
adjective equal to _pitû_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 6).
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