Nov.6] SOCIETYOK BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1894.....[A]-da-paiStu i-Sid sam-eana e-lat sam-e
[ip]-pa-lis-mapu-luh-ta-5ui-mur
Su (ilu) A-nu5a A-da-pa e-li-Su.... -ta i5-kun
10 ki 5a (ilu) Iva 5u-ba-ra-Su i5-kun... [(ilu) A]-nu bel-us-suana ar-katu-raeana Su-pi-i 5im-tui(?)-
5im(?)
A-da-pazi-ir a-mi-lu-ti
ni-suSal-ti5kap-pi5u-u-tii5-bi-ru
a-naSamee-lu u-Si-i-lu u ki-a-am
15 5a-kanu 5a lim-ni5 ana nisi i5-tak-nu
mur-su5a ina zumur nisi i5-tak-nu
.... [5u]-a-tum(ilu)Nin-kar-ra-aku-na-ah-hu
bi-masi-im-mumur-suli5-mur
su-a-tumhar-ba-sulim-kut-ma
20 Sit-tumhi-tumla i-sal-lal
pu-u-dunu-uglib-bini5i
At the end of line 2, I have adopted Prof. Sayce'srestoration,
" and he looked up,"ippa[lis]. At the end of line 5 he seems to
have restored ip[paf.—" and the gods of heaven and earth as
manyas exist, and whoever(elsetherewas),answeredaccordingly
his command." In line 6, the character thatfollowssu is uncertain ;
the traces have somewhatof the form of »IJ^ which, so far as the
meaningis concerned, would be a possible restoration. In line 9,
if we could restore\lubuf-labeforei$kun,we might see a reterence
to the weeds of woe in which Adapa,followingthe advice of his
father, presentedhimselfbefore Anu; but the traces of the first
characterare more thoseof ma. ThewordSubara(l. 10) appears
10 be formed from the root Sabaru accordingto the type L^;
cf. I. 13, "victoriously the wings of the South windhe broke" (isbiru).
But the thread of the story has been brokenwith the tablet that
preservedit, so that it is impossible to determine or to divine the
exactsensehere. If the form subarube also connectedwithsabdru,
the phrasesakinSubaruSipparNipurBabilu(Sargon,*Cylinder,I. 4),
wouldfind its natural explanationas a parallel to musallimu hibil-
tiiunin the same line, unalihu(I. 17) I refer to a root nahfi,"to
- Der einrichtete den Cullus (?) von S. JV. unci B. Peiserin Keilinschr. Bib!.,
ii., p. 41.
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