THE BABYLONIAN EXPEDITION

PROM THE TEMPLE ARCHIVES OF NIPPUR. 9
li~&i.".""".ki, , d"Ddr-Ku-ri-Gal-zu,2 and lastly "dtuA.AB.BAki.3
'No. 39, : 21, or writtcn also ~lir~~~En-lil~'.~~~',
No. 3 : 33, 38, 41, which latter is mentioned in B. E., XIV,
5 : 10 (11th year of Burra-Buriash) and I.c., 78 : 4 (22d of Nazi-iV1aruttash). A ""~Ddr-i~~En-lilh~~-~ we find in
B. E., XIV, 118 : 1, 30 (5th year of Kudur-Enlil), and a " "~~d~.~"En-lil~~~~-~
in LC., XIV, 127 : 4 (beginning of tlie
reign of Shagarskti-Shuriash). In this last passage the sanv city is nrentioned in 1. 7, where its nnmc is 6L"~dr-i1"Enlil-li-eki-a.
most interesting writing, showing that even at the time of the Csssite kings i ' u ~ was ~ pronounced
. ~ ~ ~
and read Enlil resp. Ellil, or still bcttcr: Enlilil with n plural Enlilt, the long ti or F still betraying the fact that we have
here s. Serr~itieieed Somerian word. Fat. such formations cf., c.g., gu-ra = icussa = Rebr. KG?, “throne." Clay's
view, A. J. S. L. L., XXIII, pp. 269f., that Enlil was always pronounced Enlil must be modified, as will be shorn
elsewhere. The name Enlil, signifying originally the chief god oI Nippur, was in course of time applied to each and
every god that played the same rble in the religious concoption of the Babylonians as did Enlil of Nippur. The same
holds good of NZN.LIL = BPlit, ~ .KUR = temple, ""lnnanna = Ishtnr = goddess, AN = ilu = god; cf. the German
word "I