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There are very few hermeneutic variations across the sources. Two of the variants catego- rised as hermeneutic actually reflect ...

some reasoning in terms of cosmology behind this variant, though it is admittedly ob- scure. ...

CHAPTER 8 – MĪS PÎ The Text The ritual of mīs pî, “washing the mouth,” was an ancient Mesopotamian cultic practice by which mate ...

ing certain actions and prompts for reciting the incantations.^678 It is the sources for the tablet containing the ritual instru ...

SiglumF K10473 Museum Number G K13259+13260 H K15534 I K7630+79-7-8, 67 L K6683 J K3248 M K8994 N K15279 O K15325 Q K13472 P K11 ...

B, K8117 The script is Neo-Assyrian, and the signs are well executed and evenly spaced. Only the top left corner of this tablet ...

D, K10060 The script is Neo-Assyrian and very evenly written. The lines are written close together so that in some places signs ...

G, K13259+13260 The script is irregularly sized Neo-Assyrian, with signs ranging from 2.5mm to 4.5mm in height. The Winkelhaken ...

lines, where the text is divided between morning and evening ritual instructions, and be- tween the lines 8 and 9 of column II o ...

N, K15279 The fragment is written in Neo-Assyrian script, but is severely damaged. The fragment seems to be from the middle of t ...

R, K10176 The script is Neo-Assyrian and quite angular. There is one horizontal ruling preserved that separates the text into se ...

is an exhaustive list of all variant readings between any two sources for mīs pî that over- lap in content, regardless of the am ...

280 Table - Variants in the Parallel Sources for M īs Pî Comparison: Text vs Text TOTAL PLL Orthographic Variants Proportion: SU ...

List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for Mīs Pî No. Tablets P1 B 1 Variant Text KA DINGIR LUḪ-ú Categorisation SV(2) – ...

P7 A 1 i 21 DUG.A.GÚB.BA OV – The vessel determinative DUG H 3 A.GÚB.BA is lacking in H. P8 A 1 i 21 ŠID-nu-ma OV – H lacks the ...

P14 A 1 i 29 [ ]˹ak˺ OV – The verb √alāku, “to go,” is I i 9 T 19 tal-lak GIN-ak written syllabically in T. (^) P15 A I i 13^2 i ...

P21 I iii 15’ ŠID-ma OV – Q has a phonetic complement Q 5 P 7 ŠID-ŠID-n[u ˹ma˺^ recount.” appended to the verb √manû, “recite, ( ...

Discussion of Variants Orthographic Variants In all there are 12 orthographic variants, only half of which occur in sources that ...

to the second person singular subject afformative. However, these variations may in fact relate to phonetic differences between ...

Stylistic Variants (Type 2) It is noteworthy that the only stylistic variants of type 2 occur in the Late Babylonian school text ...