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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. 1896 Excerpt: ...p. 33, No. 376) is identical with Biiinnow, List 5110. It has in the ancient inscriptions the two values r/a and ma (for the latter cf, e. g., No. 87, col. II, 19 (kalam-ma), 29 (Urumtt-ma) ). On Pl. 50, col. II, 4, read NA GA. = ishkun (and col. HI, 4 f., KI-GAL (= kigalla) Uhpu-uk, against Scheil in Rtcueil XV, 62 f.). Col. Ill, 19. nam-ti-mu, 20. nam ti, 21. ya-ba-dag-yi--"unto my life he may add life." 4 PAgal LU sag gud, read rib (l'A-LU sag-gudagal, "the shepherd having the head of an ox " z= " the oxheaded shepherd," a synonym of king, according to Jensen. 6On the god Shulpa-ud du, cf. Jensen, Kosmologie, pp 126 f., and in Schroder's K. B., Ill, part I, p. 65, note It (Umunpauddu). Oppert read Dun-pa-e. 6 "The goddess who destroys life," an ideogram of Bau or Gula (Biiinnow, List 11084, cf. Ill B., 41, col. lI, 29-31; IIl R, 43, col. IV, 15-18, and the present work, Pl. 67, col. Ill, 1-5). The same deity is mentioned No. 95, 1, No. 106, 1, No. Ill, 1. On the value of dug cf. Ilommel, Sumeruche Leustucke, p. 5, No. 55, and p 12, No. 115. 'Cf. No. 99, 5. sCf. Bevue d'Auyriologie II, p. 147. col. Ill, 6 and 7, col. V, 1, 3, 6. Cf. No. 87, col. I, 5, 40, 42, etc. The linear sign is composed of e (canal) + gi (reed) and originally denotes a piece of land intersected by canals and covered with reeds (cf. No. 87. col. lll, 20). The land par excellence with these two characteristic features was to the Babylonians their own country, which therefore was called by the oldest inhabitants Ei--e-j-gi--Kengi, "the land of canals and reeds." From this correct etymology of Kengi and its use in the earliest texts (bur bar Kmgi, No. 87, col. II, 21, and Knshugtagana en Kengi, No. 90, 8) it follows that the name does not...
