e-lum gud-sun_
It is finished, the series "Exalted, bull that overwhelms."

EARLY FORM OF THE SERIES _D.__BABBAR-GIM-E-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-sub_ 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-e-ta_ after line
four agrees with the first melody of the Enlil series _zi-bu-u sud-du-am_
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 e-ta_ [ ]
1. Like the sun-god arise ...

2. _u-mu-un gan_ ...
2. Oh lord ...

3. _a-a __d.__Mu-ul-lil u-[mu-un kur-kur-ra_
3. Father Enlil, lord of the lands.

4. _d.__Mu-ul-lil u-mu-[un dug-ga-zi-da_]
4. Enlil lord of faithful word.

5. _am-na-a gud-de sig-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. _u-mu-un mu erin-na-[ni sag-ma-al ki_]
7. Lord who _summons_ his toilers, recorder of the earth.

8. _u-mu-un ia erin-a-[ni ga-eri-am da-]ma-[la]_
8. Lord who causes to abound oil for his toilers, milk for the newly
born.(411)

9. _u-mu-un ki-dur-a-ni [uru ir-ir]_
9. Lord whose abode is the city of weeping.

10. _ki-na-a-ni a-ag-[ga-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. _e-kur e-sag-gi-pad-da-ta_
12. In Ekur temple of (thy) heart's choice.

13. _gi-gun-na gis-tir-sim [__gis__ erin-na-ta_
13. In the great dark chamber of odorous forest and cedar.

14. [ _] Ses-du-a-ka ses-mul [... ta]_
14. In ...,

15. [ _]si-ra e-u-[di- ta ]_
15. In ... the house of vision,

16. _[ ]lu e babbar nu-[zu-ta_]
16. In ... house which knows the sunlight no