LVII), though it has been given a somewhat grotesque character by
a perhaps intentional approach to the scimitar, associated with Marduk
(see Ward, _Seal Cylinders_, Chap. XXVII). The exact determination of
the various weapons depicted on seal-cylinders merits a special study.
Line 181. Begins a speech of Huwawa, extending to line 187, reported
to Gish by the elders (line 188-189), who add a further warning to
the youthful and impetuous hero.
Line 183. _lu-uk-s?-su_ (also l. 186), from _ak?su_, "drive on" or
"lure on," occurs on the Pennsylvania tablet, line 135, _uk-ki-si_,
"lure on" or "entrap," which Langdon erroneously renders "take away"
and thereby misses the point completely. See the comment to the line
of the Pennsylvania tablet in question.
Line 192. On the phrase _san? bunu_, "change of countenance," in the
sense of "enraged," see the note to the Pennsylvania tablet, l.31.
Line 194. _nu-ma-at_ occurs in a tablet published by Meissner,
_Altbabyl. Privatrecht_, No. 100, with _b?t abi_, which shows that the
total confine of a property is meant; here, therefore, the "interior"
of the forest or heart. It is hardly a "by-form" of _nuptum_ as
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