ord of Esume-_du_.

7. _umun e-sag-mag-a umun-e e-i-be-su-gud_
7. Lord of Esamah, lord of E-ibe-sugud.(497)

8. _umun sukkal-mag-di_(_498_)_ gal-ukkin __d.__Nusku-ge_
8. Lord, great messenger, the herald Nusku.

9. _d.__Mas-tab-ba __d.__Lugal-gir-ra_
9. The twin god, Lugalgirra.

10. _dug-ga-zu mu-lu ta-zu mu-un-zu_
10. As to thy commands, who comprehends thy form?

11. _tag-a-zu mu-lu_
11. As to thy succor, who comprehends thy form?

12. _e-ne-em-zu mu-lu_
12. As to thy word, who comprehends thy form?

13. _edin-na di-di edin-na se-am-du_
13. She wanders on the plain, on the plain she wails.

14. _ama gasan tin-dib-ba edin-na_
14. The mother, queen who gives life to the dead, on the plain wails.

15. _nin gasan nigin-gar-ra edin-na_
15. The queen, lady Nigingar, on the plain wails.

16. _nin gasan Lara-ak-(ki)-ge_(_499_)_ edin-na_
16. The queen, lady of Larak, on the plain wails.

17. _nin gasan I-si-in-na-(ki) edin-na_
17. The queen, lady of Isin, on the plain wails.

18. _nin ama e-dur_(_500_)_-azag-ga edin-na_
18. The queen, mother of the holy city, on the plain wails.

19. _nin ama SU-HAL-BI_(_501_)_ edin-na_
19. The queen, the ... mother, on the plain wails.

20. _d.__Ba-u nu-numuz sag-ga edin-na_
20. Bau, the pious woman, on the plain wails.

21. _es e-rab-ri-ri umun __d.__Sa-kut-mag-a edin-a_
21. The abode, Erabriri, of the lord Sakutmah on the plain wails.

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22. _e-lum-e la-lu u-'u-a u-'u-a_
22. Oh honored one, the exuberant, alas, alas.

23. _96-am mu-sid-bi-im duppu 3-kam e-lum di-da-ra nu al-til_
23. Ninety-six is the number of its lines. Third tablet of _Elum didara_,
unfinished.

24. _gab-ri Bar-sip-(ki) kima labiri-su sa-tir-ma barim duppu
__d.__Bel-ik-sur mari-su sa __d.__Bel-iskun-ni_
24. Copy from Barsippa, according to its original, written and collated.
Tablet of Beliksur son of Belishkunni,

25. _mar Iddin-__d.__Papsukkal pa-lih __d.__Nabu ina sar-tum la ustesir u
ina me-ris-tum la u-sa-bi_(_502_)
25. son of Iddin-Papsukkal worshipper of Nebo. In fraud he has not
translated it and with wilful readings has he not published
it.

BABYLONIAN CULT SYMBOLS. 6060 (NO. 12)

Ni. 6060, a Cassite tablet in four columns, yields a notable addition to
the scant literature we now possess concerning Babylonian mystic symbols.
A fragmentary Assyri