Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

185. tu mußen .gin 7 e 2 ni 2.te.ta gu 3
im.ma.ni.ib 2.be 2
137
The house was full of fearful sighing as of
pigeons,
186. kur gal d en.lil 2.le d nin.lil 2.ra The great mountain Enlil was crying to
gu 3 mu.na.de 2.e Ninlil,
Whereas the Old Babylonian form of line 184 simply portrays it as one among a number
of events in lines 182-185 that were not sequential, the first millennium redactor posits a
causal relation between Enlil’s groaning in line 183 and the disappearance of the Anuna
in line 184. Because line 184 has been reinterpreted as a result clause, its prefix seems to
have been “corrected” to the *bi-√ prefix. If we were to privilege the first millennium
version, an appropriate translation might be something like “Enlil groaned and hid
himself, and because of this, the Anuna flattened themselves against the walls.”
(44) The Exploits of Ninurta (1.6.2), line 350 (van Dijk 1983, vol. 2, 101)
H dungu diri.ga [...] a 2 bi 2.in [...]
F 1
dungu diri.ga.gin 7 a 2 bi 2.≠in.su 3±.su 3.ud
H 1 dungu diri.ga.gin 7 a 2 bi 2.in.su 3.su 3.ud ! (E)
I 1
J 1
!
dungu diri.ga.gin7 a2 bi2.≠in± [...]
dungu diri.ga.≠gin 7± [...]
K 1 ≠dungu± diri.ga.gin 7 a 2 ≠bi 2±.in.su 3.≠su 3± [...]
L 1
b 1
dungu [...]
[dungu diri].ga.gin 7 ni 2.bi mu.un.su 3
≠ki±-ma ≠er-pe±-e-ti muq-qal-pi-ti ina ram-ni-ßu 2 i-ßad-di-˙u