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Such close linguistic parallels are instructive as furnishing additional proof, if it were needed, of the dependence of the Semitic-Babylonian and Assyrian Versions upon Sumerian originals. i.e. Hilbrecht, that a measurement of the vessel was given in l. 7 of the early Semitic fragment. Texts, Pt. Poebel, Hist. Texts, p. 54, n. 1.
Its occurrence does not necessarily imply the existence of a recognized Semitic Version at the period our text was inscribed. Poebel, Hist.
Poebel that in each version two separate goddesses are represented as lamenting, Nintu or Bêlit-ili and Innanna or Ishtar. For Innanna as a separate goddess had no share in the Sumerian Creation, and the reference to "her people" is there only applicable to Nintu. Dr.
It may be added that in Sumerian magical compositions of this early period, of which we have not yet recovered many quite obvious examples, it is possible that the prefix "Incantation" was not so invariable as in the later magical literature. Cf. Poebel, Hist. Texts, p. 63, and Hist. and Gram. Texts, pl. i.
But as Goddess of Birth she retained only a pale reflection of her original cosmic character, and her functions were gradually specialized. Cf. Poebel, op. cit., p. 33. It is possible that, under one of her later synonyms, we should identify her, as Dr. Poebel suggests, with the Mylitta of Herodotus.
Poebel assigns the speech to Ninkharsagga, or Nintu, the goddess who later in the column is associated with Anu, Enlil, and Enki in man's creation. But the mention of Nintu in her own speech is hardly consistent with that supposition, if we assume with Dr.
Indeed the early existence of some form of mother- right may have originated, and would certainly have encouraged, the growth of a tradition of solar parentage for the head of the state. Poebel, Hist. Inscr., p. 124 f. What light then does our new material throw upon traditional origins of civilization?
Poebel not unnaturally assumed that A was merely the first syllable of the name, of which the end was wanting. But it has now been shown that the complete name was A; see Förtsch, Orient. Lit.-Zeit., Vol. Texts in the Brit. Mus., Pt.
The evidence we thus obtain that the early Sumerians themselves regarded Eridu as the first city in the world to be created, increases the hope that future excavation at Abu Shahrain may reveal Sumerian remains of periods which, from an archaeological standpoint, must still be regarded as prehistoric. Cf. Poebel, op. cit., p. 41.
The breadth of the tablet is 5 5/8 in., and it originally measured about 7 in. in length from top to bottom; but only about one-third of its inscribed surface is preserved. Cf. Poebel, Hist. Texts, pp. 66 ff. No. 5.
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