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88 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
d·nina-ka"i'a e-ni-ba-e, 'to the wife of the priest of Nina he makes
a gift', TSA. no. 5 l, 5. ür d·ininna-ka-Sú sagilla (sic) mu-un-gub,
'upon the pedestle of Ininna a statue weplace' , RADAU, Miscel. no. 2,
40. ki sangu d. ninmar-(ki)-ka-ta su-ba-ti, , from the priest of Ninmar
he has received " CT. II I 19 D.
§ 136. Variants {jifor ge, ga for ka occur. gi written ~ gi-(s) in
su mag anna-gi, 'mighty strength of Anu', \VEISSBACH, Babyl. Mis­
cellen, TaL 131. 29. For anna-,qct see above § 135.
§ 137. The particle kam 4»--0(, represents the obligue ka and the
verb (a)m to be. ud-ba entemena patesi sirburla-(ki)-kam enlitarzi
sangu d. ningirsu-ka-kam, 'then Ent. was patesi of Lagash and En1.
was priest of Ningirsu'. Considerable difficulty presents itself in con­
nection with this construction for we should expect the status. rectus
ge-em * here, a form which never occurs. If we accept my interpre­
tation of the V1ñ as the verb 'to be', then the construct is the complement
which is regarded as thus deflected from the status rectus sufficiently to
throw the genitive into the obligue case.
min-lwm-ma ... d.nin-dub-kam, 'thesecond is thelady ofwriting',
Cyl. A 6, 5. 1 uda-nitag mas-da-ri-a dam lu-má-lag-ka-kam, 'one
male sheep is the property of the wife of the sailor', NIK., 157, obv. I.
gú-de-a patesi sirburla-( ki) 1 gis-pi-túg-dagal-kam .arad ni-tug d. nin-a­
na-kam pisan gisu-sub-ba-ka gis ba-an-gir, 'Gudea patesi of Lagash,
(who) is (a man) of vast understanding, (who) is a revering servant of
his lady, in tbe receptacle of the mould cast a form', Gud. F 2, 6-13.
igi-zi-bar-ra d.nina-kam, 'for the faithful seer of Nina', Cyl. A 17,10.
§ 138. Constructs construed with postfixes may be avoided by an
anticipative construction. id lw-a-na-ta, 'at the mouth of the river',
Una pz narati) 2, IV R. 2? b 10. am-sun edin-na-ge tig-bi ki-ne-in-gam,
'The wild-ox of the plain - its neck it has crushed', K. 4830 obv. 93•
1. The sign of the eonstruet is often omitted.
2. Literally 'the river - at its mouth'.
3. For, 'The neek of the wild-ox' ete.