Reading akkadian PRayeRs & Hymns An Introduction

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READING AKKADIAN PRAYERS AND HYMNS: AN INTRODUCTION
11. [šá ina] É.GAL-ia u KUR-ia GÁL.ME[Š]
〈pal-ḫa-ku ad-ra-ku u šu-ta-du-ra-ku〉
12. [ḪUL.BI I]A-ši u É.G[AL-ia]
13. [a-a TE-a a-a DIM 4] a-a KU.NU a-a K[UR-an-ni]
14. an-nu-ú-a lip-pa-áš-ru gíl-la-tu-ú-a li-i[n-na-ab-ka]
Line 11: Ša introduces a relative clause whose antecedent is idāti ittāti. É.GAL = ekallu,
“palace.” KUR = mātu, “land.” GÁL.MEŠ = bašû, “to occur.” While the MEŠ sign in verbal
logograms can signify the plural or an iterative stem (Borger, MZL, no. 754, 420), the present
normalization is based on the syllabic spelling ib-šá-a-ma in the parallel formula in
Nergal 2 discussed in the introduction to the prayer (see Mayer, UFBG, 480, Text G: 15′).
The text following the line is restored after a formula occurring in that same parallel text
(see discussion under THE PRAYER). Palḫāku adrāku u šutādurāku, “I am anxious (palāḫu), I
am afraid (adāru), and I am panicked (Št adāru).” All three forms are 1cs predicative constructions
(statives). For this formulary, see also Mayer, UFBG, 73.
ša ina ekallīya u mātīya ibšâ / 〈palḫāku adrāku u šutādurāku〉
Line 12: The pronominal suffix on lumnu, BI = –šina, refers back to idāti ittāti. Note
that the n of the noun assimilates to the š of the suffix. Ayyâši, “towards me,” is a form of
the 1cs dative pronoun to which the preposition ana has assimilated (ayyâši < ana yâši, cf.
GAG, §41 j 2). IA-ši is taken here as ayyâši since the É.G[AL-ia] which follows it demands
the preposition ana (see Mayer, UFBG, 267). For the possibility of reading IA as ay(y)V, see
Werner Mayer, “Besonderheiten in der Verwendung des Graphems A.A im Akkadischen,”
Or n.s. 72 (2003), 293–306, at 305–6. While the translation given below may be read ambiguously,
it is important to recognize that the prepositional phrase, “towards me and my
palace,” modifies the series of verbs in the following line, not the subject, “their evil.”
lumuššina ayyâši u ekallīya
Line 13: TE = ṭeḫû, “to come near to, to approach.” DIM 4 = sanāqu, “to check, to approach,
to come near.” KU.NU = qerēbu, “to approach, to come close to.” KUR = kašādu, “to
reach, to arrive, to conquer.” All of these verbs are vetitives (prefix ayy– plus the preterite),
that is, negative commands.
ayy-iṭḫâm ayy-isniq ayy-iqrib ayy-ikšudanni
Line 14: Annu is an alternative form of arnu, “guilt, fault, offense, penalty.” Napšuru
(N of pašāru), “to be released, freed.” MSS B and C have lip-pa-áš-ru; MS D has lip-pá-aṭ ? -ru
(N stem of paṭāru, for which see line 15). Gillatu, “sin, sacrilege, crime, misdeed.” In view
of the following verb (a 3fp precative), this noun is plural. Nanbuku (N of abāku), “to be
taken away.”
annūya lippašrū gillātūya linnabkā