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1.6 Other BNBV inal verbs
The following examples involve verbs that are neither experiential, nor adversarial. Some
of these predicates probably do not, properly speaking, belong to the BNBV inal class.
(59) The Exploits of Ninurta [1.6.2], ll. 348-352 (Karahashi 2000, 78)
348. d nin.urta dumu d en.lil 2.la 2.ke 4
gal.bi i 3.œa 2.œa 2
Ninurta, the son of Enlil, wanted to do
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something big,
349. gu.ru.um na 4 kur.ra mi.ni.in.ak As for the pile of stones that had been
350. dungu diri.ga.gin 7
accumulated in the mountains,
Since it (pile of stones) stretched across
a 2 bi 2.in.su 3.su 3.ud them (mountains) like floating clouds,
351. bad 3 ma˙.gin 7 kalam.ma igi.ba Blocking the view of the land like a huge
bi 2.in.tab.≠ba± wall,
352. œiß bal ki.ßar 2.ra mu.ni.in.œar He installed a spigot (?) at the horizon,
This passage appears several times in the course of the dissertation and the form of the
verb in line 350 is cited in recent secondary literature in two forms: bi 2.in.su 3.su 3.ud and
bi 2.in.su 3.su 3.e: ETCSL offers the former, Karahashi the latter (for further discussion of
the form of the verb in the text-artifactual record, see example [49] in section 2.3 below).