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
_a-na-ám_ (line 14).
_mu-un-ma-al_: _mu-un_ (Hymn to Sin, line 17). _ma-al_ is the verb (Hymn
to Bêl, line 11).
Reverse
24. _è kaš-a-ka è gurun-na-ka dumu mulu azag zu-ge sigišše sag
tuk-a-na_
In the house of wine, in the house of fruit, the son, the shining
one of wisdom, who has a great sacrifice!
_è kaš-a-ka è gurun-na-nka dumu mulu azag zu-ge_ (line 21).
_sigišše_ (line 18).
_sag_ (Hymn to Bêl, line 5).
_tuk-a-na_: _tuk_ equals _išû_, “have” (Br. 11237). _a_, vowel of
prolongation (Hymn to Bêl, line 9). _na_, suffix of the third person
(Hymn to Bêl, line 1).
25. _ur-sag ^giš ku-a sag-mal-mal-ge_
The hero of great weapons!
_ur_ equals _amêlu_, “man” (Br. 11256).
_sag_ (Hymn to Bêl, line 5). _ur-sag_ means “head-man”, and is also
equal to _ḳarradu_, “mighty one”.
_^giš ku-a_: _^giš_ equals _i⋅u_, “wood”, and is a determinative before
names of things made of wood. _ku_ equals _bêlu_, “weapon”, perhaps
sacrificial implements. _a_, vowel of prolongation.
_sag-mal-mal-ge_: _sag_ (just explained). _mal-mal_: PISANNU is
dialectic for either MA.AL or IḲU and as a suffix makes an adjective of
a noun (see Hymn to Bêl, lines 1 and 18). _ge_ (see Hymn to Adad, line
4).
26. _dimmer mutin An-na-ge ú-sun-na sag-mal-mal-ge_
The wine god of Anu, the great plant-germinator!
_dimmer mutin An-na-ge_ (line 13).
_ú-sun-na_ (line 6).
_sag mal-mal-ge_ (line 25).
27. _ú-sun gurun-gurun ú-sun gurun-gurun šes-mu ú-sun gurun-gurun_
The germinator of many fruits, the germinator of many fruits, my
brother, the germinator of many fruits!
_ú-sun_ (line 6).
_gurun-gurun_, plural form of _gurun_ (line 21).
_šes-mu_: _šes_ (line 1). _mu_ (Hymn to Adad, line 16).
28. _ú-sun a-ra-li ú-sun gurun-gurun šes-mu ú-šun gurun-gurun_
The germinator of the lower world, the germinator of many fruits, my
brother, the germinator of many fruits!
_ú-sun_ (line 6).
_a-ra-li_ has passed over into Assyrian as _arallû_, “lower world”.
_a-ra-li_ is phonetic. There is a sign, URUGAL, translated by _arallû_.
URUGAL consists of the “enclosure” sign containing the sign GAL and
means “great house”. _è-kur-be_ is also translated by _arallû_ and is
equal to _bît mûti_, “house of the dead” (Br. 6259); more literally the
meaning is “house of the land of the dead”.
_ú-sun gurun-gurun šes-mu_ (line 27).
29. _in-nu gíš ^giš gu-ga-ge tàl-ta-al-ta-al mu-ib-rá-rá_
The vegetable germinator(?), the only plant begetter, who goeth
forth!
_in-nu_ might equal _tibnu_, “straw”, “vegetation” (Br. 4231). Perhaps
it would be better to take _in-nu_ as a verb meaning “he is the one
who”, _in_ being a verbal prefix and _nu_ the verbal stem in the sense
of _zikaru_ (Br. 1964), as in _nu-banda_ (MSL. 264).
_gíš_: UŠ with the value _gíš_ equals _riḥû_, “beget” (Br. 5042).
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