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Sumerian Hymns, from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum, transliteration, translation, and commentary, by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh, Ph.D. pp. 83 (9½ × 6½ inches). New York: The Columbia University Press, 1908.

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Sumerian Hymns, from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum, transliteration, translation, and commentary, by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh, Ph.D. pp. 83 (9½ × 6½ inches). New York: The Columbia University Press, 1908.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

T. G. Pinches
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1909 , pp. 1146 - 1149
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page 1148 note 1 Most Assyriologists, however, will probably prefer another explanation, stands for Rammānu, and, with the pronunciation of ni, for ramānu, “self,” not because of the likeness between these two words (which are probably not connected in Semitic Babylonian), but because means “wind” , and apparently also “breath”, and can likewise naturally stand for “person”, “self”.

page 1148 note 2 My first reading of was i-ne, dialectic form of igi, “eye.” Professor Haupt, however, read it ide. Later on my first reading was adopted, and seems to be supported by the group the second and third characters of which are glossed by making for the whole on the fragment 81–4–28, 927. The author has ide.