Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

(74) Bird and Fish [5.3.5], ll. 7-11 (Karahashi 2000, 164)
7. i7 ≠idigna± i7 buranun.na za 3.ga He laid out side by side the Tigris and the
ba.an.la 2 a kur.kur.ra Euphrates, and caused them to bring
mi.ni.in.tum 3.uß water from the mountains,
8. i 7 tur.≠tur±.ra ßu lu˙ ba.an.ak He scoured out the smaller streams, and
sur 3.sur 3 mi.ni.œar.œar positioned the other watercourses,
9. [a.a d ]≠en±.ki.ke 4 tur 3 amaß Father Enki made the sheepfolds and cattle-
ßu bi 2.in.daœal sipa unu 3
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pens teem, and provided them with
bi 2.in.tuku shepherds and herdsmen,
10. ≠iri± ki a 2.dam ki.a He founded cities and settlements
bi 2.in.œar.œar saœ gi 6
throughout the earth, and made the
mi.ni.in.lu black-headed multiply,
11. lugal.e nam.sipa.bi.ße 3
mu.un.tuku nam.nun.bi.ße 3
mu.un.il 2
He provided them with a king as shepherd,
elevating him to sovereignty over them,
Karahashi transliterates the verb in question as ßu bi 2.in.niœin, whereas ETCSL has ßu
bi 2.in.daœal. The copy in PBS 10, 2, 21 is quite difficult to read and collation may yield
NIŒIN, but the copy in UET 6/1, 38 is clearly AMA, hence daœal. I believe that this is an
example of the use of ßu to introduce an agent into an achievement predicate; the reason
for the absence of a nominalizing/resultative postposition is that the verbal root, √daœal,
is adjectival and it is a good examples of a derived achievement as discussed above.