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290). Yoshikawa presents the rather sketchy material without further comment as
follows:
(24) Kagal, tablet E, IV (Yoshikawa 1993, 290) 18
79. œiß tuk ße-mu-ú to hear
80. œiß TUK.TUK ße-me-e a-ú to hear twice
The English translation of the Akkadian gloss in line 80 is Yoshikawa’s—I have been
unable to make sense of either the Akkadian gloss or Yoshikawa’s translation into
English. Since Yoshikawa’s interpretation and its implications remain unclear to me, I
have treated the form TUK.TUK, which could be read as either tuk.tuk or du 12.du 12, as a
simple case of full verbal reduplication, namely œiß tuk.tuk.
The verbal form œiß-√tuk.tuk occurs two times in the Old Babylonian materials
made available through the ETCSL project: in the Sargon Legend, segment B, line 16 and
Shulgi C, segment B, line 50, neither of which elucidate its meaning in any great detail.
(25) The Sargon Legend [2.1.4], segment B, line ll. 14-18
14. ku 3 d inanna.ke 4 ma.mu 2 i 7 mud.ße 3
mu.un.gir 5.gir 5
121
In the dream, holy Inanna drowned him
(= Ur-Zababa) in a river of blood,
15. m ßar.ru.um.ki.in dum.dam.ma.na The sleeping Sargon gnawed the ground,
zu 2 ki.≠ße 3± ba.da.ab.ra.≠a˙± groaning,
18 No edition in MSL XIII; Civil notes that, “these texts will be published with corrections and additions in HAR-ra
VII” (Civil 1971, 252).