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THE DETERMINATIVES 53
a kind of drum 7, SBH, 72, rey. 10. suPA-mes = appati, 'reins '.
For lists with the determinative su, see B. M. 35503 rev.; 42339 rey. +­
93085 rev.; II R. 44, no. 8; and especially NIK., plates 81-88, list of pelts
of various animals.
~~ T dingir, 'god', employed for both genders. See for lists of tbe
Br. Mus., BEZOLD, Cato 2094.
~ sil=sulü, 'street', as determ. onlyin SBH. 142rev., col. III.
~~TTeri, uru, 'city '. eri appears in this construction first in the
Semi tic inscriptions and does not figure as a determinative in Sumerian;
cf. for example NUN-(ki) = Eridu, Gud. B 4, 8, with eriNUN-(ki),
Hammurabi Code, 1, 64. The Semitesgenerally accepted the Sumerian
spelling for the cities whose names had already become famous as
ká-dingir-ra-(ki) for Babylon, ud-kib-nun-(lú) for Sippar, but in those
cases where they themselves were the first to put the name of cities into
writing they employed the determ. eri, as erilJárranu, i. e., aluJ;Jar­
ranu, etc'.
~~ ~~~Titi , 'month' . 'o iti-sekin-tar=Adar' , itiezen-d. bau , month of the
festival of Bau, eighth month, etc.
~ Tmusen, pag, 'bird " invariably follows its noun,
cf. lists of birds as V R. 27, no. 3 = CT. XIV, 8, etc.
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