26. _al-tíl e-lum gud-sun_ It is finished, the series “Exalted, bull that overwhelms.” EARLY FORM OF THE SERIES _D.__BABBAR-GIM-È-TA_ 11359 (MYHRMAN NO. 8) Ni. 11359, published by MYHRMAN, PBS. I. No. 8, is the left upper corner of a large four column tablet. It contained a series of _ki-šub_ melodies which formed the prototype of the later Enlil series of which three tablets have been edited by the writer, see _Sumerian Liturgical Texts_ 167. It stands to the completed series as the similar tablet of the _e-lum gud-sun_ series, Tablet Virolleaud, is related to its completed canonical form in ZIMMERN, KL. 11. Both Ni. 11359 and Tablet Virolleaud show the evolution of two great Enlil liturgies arrested midway in their evolution. They still consist of unmethodically joined melodies. Both have the same rubric at the end. The first melody of _d.__Babbar-gim-è-ta_ after line four agrees with the first melody of the Enlil series _zi-bu-ù sud-du-ám_ in ZIMMERN, KL. 8 and 9 after line five of that series. A duplicate will be found in BL. pp. 37-39, which see for critical notes on the reconstructed text. OBVERSE 1 1. _d.__Babbar-gim è-ta_ [ ] 1. Like the sun-god arise ... 2. _ù-mu-un gan_ ... 2. Oh lord ... 3. _a-a __d.__Mu-ul-lil ù-[mu-un kur-kur-ra_ 3. Father Enlil, lord of the lands. 4. _d.__Mu-ul-lil ù-mu-[un dúg-ga-zi-da_] 4. Enlil lord of faithful word. 5. _am-ná-a gud-dé sīg-gan-nu-di_ 5. Crouching wild ox, bull that rests not.(410) 6. _d.__Mu-ul-lil dam-kar-[ra ki-dagar-ra]_ 6. Enlil herdsman of the wide earth. 7. _ù-mu-un mu erin-na-[ni sag-ma-al ki_] 7. Lord who _summons_ his toilers, recorder of the earth. 8. _ù-mu-un iá erin-a-[ni ga-eri-ám da-]ma-[la]_ 8. Lord who causes to abound oil for his toilers, milk for the newly born.(411) 9. _ù-mu-un ki-dúr-a-ni [uru ir-ir]_ 9. Lord whose abode is the city of weeping. 10. _ki-ná-a-ni á-ág-[gà-e gal-zu]_ 10. In whose chamber oracles are interpreted. 11. _a-a __d.__Mu-ul-lil uru-[ta Nibru-ki]_ 11. Father Enlil in (thy) city Nippur. 12. _é-kur é-šag-gi-pad-da-ta_ 12. In Ekur temple of (thy) heart’s choice. 13. _gi-gun-na giš-tir-šim [__giš__ erin-na-ta_ 13. In the great dark chamber of odorous forest and cedar. 14. [ _] Šeš-dū-a-ka šeš-mul [... ta]_ 14. In ..., 15. [ _]si-ra é-ŭ-[di- ta ]_ 15. In ... the house of vision, 16. _[ ]lu é babbar nu-[zu-ta_] 16. In ... house which knows the sunlight not, 17. _[é]-gi-dim-dim-ma i-dé [nu-bar-ri-ta]_ 17. In the house of the “reed of _sorrow_,” which eye beholds not, 18. _[ ]maģ dug-li duģ-[duģ-ta]_ 18. In the great ... causing prosperity to abound, 19. _[é(?)]-ku-a __giš__ik-[ku-igi-lal-a-ta]_ 19. In _Ekua_ gate of the lifting of the eyes, 20. [ _]-silim-ma mu-mar [mar-ra-ta_] 20. ... REVERSE II ... 21. _sub-bi še-ib é-[kur-ra-ta?] ki-na-an-gí-gí-ra_(_412_) 21. Prayer for the brick walls of _Ekur_ that it be restored to its place. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐