_ 47 ri_ is apparently an emphatic element identical in meaning with _ám_; cf. SBP. 10, 7-12. Note _ri_, variant of _nam_, SBH. 95, 23 = ZIMMERN, KL. 12 I 8. 48 Sic! Double plural. _eš_ probably denotes the past tense, see _Sum. Gr._ § 224. 49 Sign BRÜNNOW, No. 11208. 50 The first melody or liturgical section probably ended somewhere in this lost passage at the top of Col. II. 51 Text _A-ÁŠ_! 52 The subject is Ishme-Dagan. 53 The sign is a clearly made BR. No. 10275 but probably an error for 10234. For _sùr-ri-eš_ see BA. V 633, 22; SBH. 56 Rev. 27; ZIMMERN, KL. 12 Rev. 17. 54 This compound verb _di-e-sud_ here for the first time. _di-e_ is probably connected with _de_ to flee. At the end _AŠ_ is written for _AN_. Read _a-áš_ and construe _šeš_ as a plural? _ 55 gul_ = _kalû_, restrain, is ordinarily construed with the infinitive alone; _še-du nu-uš-gul-e-en_ = _damāma ul ikalla_, Lang. B.L. 80, 25; SBH. 133, 65; 66, 15, etc. 56 Confirms SAI. 6507 = _uḳḳu_, dumb, grief stricken. 57 Variant of _sīg-sīg_, etc. See _Sum. Gr._ p. 237 _sig._ 3. Also POEBEL, PBS. V 26, 29. 58 On the liturgical use of _balag-di_, see BL. p. XXXVII. 59 Var. of _ad-du-ge_ = _bêl nissāti_, IV R. 11_a_ 23: _ad-da-ge_, ZIM. K.L. 12 II 3. See for discussion, LANG. PBS. X 137 n. 7. 60 A new ideogram. Perhaps _uššu kînu_, “sure foundation.” 61 For suffixed _ni_, _bi_, _ba_ in interrogative sentences note also _a-na an-na-ab-duģ-ni_, What can I add to thee? GENOUILLAC, _Drehem_, No. 1, 12, _a-ba ku-ul-la-ba_, Who shall restrain? Ni. 4610 Rev. 1. 62 See BL. p. XLV, and PBS. X 151 note 1. 63 On the anticipative construct, see § 138 of the grammar. _ 64 nu-mal_ are uncertain. The tablet is worn at this point. 65 On the use of this term, see PBS. X 151 n. 1 and 182, 33. 66 Cf. BL. 110, 11. 67 Written Br. 3046, but the usual form is the _gunu_, Br. 3009. _suģ-ám-bi_ = _aḫulap-šu_. POEBEL, PBS. V 152 IX 8: cf. also lines 9 and 10 _ibid._ In later texts _suģ-a_ = _aḫulap_, HAUPT, ASKT. 122, 12. DELITZSCH, H. W. 44_a_. _aḫulap_ has the derived meaning of mercy, the answer to the “How long” refrain as in this passage. See also SBP. 241 note 27 and SCHRANK, LSS. III 1, 53. 68 Cf. _nar-balag nig-dug-ga_, POEBEL, PBS. V 25 IV 48. Our text has the _emesal_ form _ag-zib_. 69 For _dû-na_ = _šalṭiš_, see RA. 11, 146, 33. 70 Written Br. 3046 = _nasāḳu_. 71 For _ta-šú_. Cf. BA. V 679, 14. 72 Probably a variant of _namģalam_, _namģilim_ = _šaḫluḳtu._ 73 The demonstrative pronoun _ģur_, _ūr_ _ 74 mûši ù urra_, IV R. 5_a_ 65; CT. 16, 20, 68. 75 Text _A-AŠ_. 76 Sign _AL_. _šitim_, _šidim_ = _idinnu_ is usually written with the sign _GIM_, POEBEL, PBS. V 117, 14 f. _amelu ĢIM_ = _idinnu_, passim in Neo-Babylonian contracts.