Babylonian Inscriptions_, No. 6.

17 Translated by RADAU on pages 436-440.

18 Abbreviation for _ki-sub-gu-da_ = _seru_, strophe, song of
prostration.

19 No. 3 of the texts in part 4.

_ 20 sa-gar_ = _pitnu saknu_, choral music, v. ZIMMERN, ZA. 31, 112. See
also the writer's PBS. Vol. XII, p. 12.

_ 21 nar-balag._ The liturgists classified the old songs according to
the instrument employed in the accompaniment. See SBP. p. ix.

22 See page 118 in part 2.

23 See IV Raw. 53, III 44-IV 28 restored from BL. 103 Reverse, a list
of 47 _su-il-la_ prayers to various deities.

24 Pages 106-109.

25 Less than half the tablet is preserved.

26 Note that this breviary of the cult of Libit-Ishtar terminates with
two ancient songs, one to Innini and one to Nina, both types of the
mother goddess who was always intimately connected with the god-men
as their divine mother.

27 For a list of the abbreviations employed in this volume, see page 98
of Part I.

28 The twelfth _kisub_ of a liturgy to Ishme-Dagan is published in
ZIMMERN'S _Kultlieder_, No. 200. A somewhat similar song service of
the cult of this king has been published in the writer's _Sumerian
Liturgical Texts_, 178-187. A portion of a series to Dungi was
published by RADAU in the _Hilprecht Anniversary Volume_, No. 1. The
liturgy to Libit-Ishtar in ZIMMERN, K L. 199 I--Rev. I 7, is composed
of a series of _sa-(bar)-gid-da_.

_ 29 na-ba-_ is for _nam-ba_, emphatic prefix. See PBS. X pt. 1 p. 76 n.
4. Cf. _na-ri-bi_, verily she utters for thee, BE. 30, No. 2, 20.

30 On the philological meaning of this name, see VAB. IV 126, 55.

31 For the suffixes _es_, _us_, denoting plural of the object, see
_Sum. Gr._ p. 168.

32 On _ki-dur-gar_ cf. Gudea, Cyl. B 12, 19.

33 Usually written _du-azag_, throne room. On the meaning of _du_ in
this word, see AJSL. 33, 107. Written also _du-azag_, in Ni. 11005
II 9.

34 Cf. Gudea, Cyl. A 25, 14, the _kin-gi_ of the _unu-gal_.

35 Br. 7720. The sign _TE_ is here _gunufied_. Cf. OBI. 127, Obv. 5.

_ 36 Tin_ alone may mean "wine," as in Gudea, Cyl. B, 5, 21; 6, 1. See
also NIKOLSKI, No. 264, _duk-tin_, a jar of wine.

_ 37 a-gim_ = _dimetu_, ban, SBH. 59, 25. _a-gim ge-im-bal-e_, The ban
may he elude, Ni. 11065 Rev. II 25. Unpublished. The line