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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
This Semitic root occurs regularly in Hebrew, Phœnician, and Aramaic in the form r-š-p, although Syriac agrees with Assyrian in having the metathesis š-r-b. The regular Semitic form of this root exists in Assyrian in the word raššubatu, flame, conflagration, brilliancy, terror, and is the cognate of Hebrew réšeph. The root rašābu, blaze, has been entered in the lexicons with the meaning “be powerful, terrible”, and the error still persists, although Jensen indicated the correct root of rašābu, rašbu, and rašubbu, blazing, in his Mythen und Epen, 580. A passage which finally disposes of the old error is CT. 19, 22, 11, izi ú-gug-ga = rà-šub-bat īšāti, Syn. of kibbat īšāti, flame of fire. The syllable ra is written with the sign UD, which has the value ra, RA. 10, 74, 18. But it is a rare value and consequently the passage was never understood. The Sumerian word ugug is a derivative of the root gug, to burn.
page 573 note 1 A new example of subur - ardu.
page 573 note 2 éš I interpret as a variant of uš - rîmu, mercy.
page 575 note 1 K. 110 was collated for me by Mr. Gadd of the British Museum.
page 576 note 1 See the references cited in Thureau-Dangin, Die Sumerischen und Akkadischen Königsinschriften, and Clay, Miscellaneous Inscriptions No. 4, Col. ii end, ud-ba ér-ra-ni Du-du Šangu d.Nin-yir-zu-ka-ge, “At that time his servant Dudu was high priest of the god Ningirsu.”
page 576 note 2 Girsu was a part of Lagash.
page 576 note 3 Text by King in CT. 33, 50, who gives no description of the object, nor its actual weight. See Weissbach, , ZDMG. 1916, 49.Google Scholar
page 577 note 1 The weight is given as 497·5 grams, which agrees with the ordinary mana of the Sumerian period. Dudu of the Nies weight is probably the same Dudu described above, and the monument also belongs to the period of Entemena.