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HE Old-Babylonian paradigm du/ gen, etc.: alakum published by Landsberger in MSL IV pp. 88-103 is in general both regular and clear. It rings the changes on the Sumerian and Akkadian verbs for "to go" through Number, Mood, Aspect, Stem, and Person, and lists for each basic form the variants with directional-dative pronominal complement specifying goal of the going, e.g. (80) [im-m]a-Egin] : it-tcdl-kam "he came away"... (83) i[m-ma-]i-gin : it-[t]cdlkai-Vum "he came away (over) to him" ... (86) im-mu-[e-'igin] :[it-til-ka]-rak-Not immediately clear are only two sections, 11. 207-210 and 11. 219-222, which both show verbal forms with accusative pronominal complement rather than, as everywhere else in the paradigm, with directional-datival. The meaning of these accusatives poses a problem inasmuch as none of the established meanings of accusative governed by aldkum appears to apply,2 and inasmuch as the parallel Sumerian forms, which might have provided a clue, show only simple pronominal infix without further overt specification of function. The two sections kum1 "he came away (over) to thee", etc.1 read: (207) ba-me-du: it-tdl-lak ni-a-ti "he is/was going away ... us" (208) ba-me-d

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Author

Thorkild Jacobsen

Published

1960

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)