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M265 A iv 10 zi-iq-pa OV(l) – J and X have the wrong case J iii 12 ziq-pi X iii 6 ziq-pi vowel for the accusative singular.^317 ...

M272 A iv 17 ki-in-ṣu OV(l) – R and T have incorrect case R 6 kin- T iv 5 kin-ṣṣa i vowels for the nominative singular.^319 (^) ...

M279 A iv 21 MUL né-bu-ú HV – A and AA record kakkabu nebûthe 15, “the bright star,” as visible on th of Du’uzu, against T and R ...

M284 A iv 22 MUL meš um-mu-lu-tu 4 HV – A, O and AA record ummulūtu, “the faint stars,” as visible kakkabū on the 5which records ...

M293 A iv 25 O iii 11 ina MURUBMIN SV(2) – A writes chen against the full clause in O. Wiederholungszei- 4 AN-e M294 A iv 25 MIN ...

Discussion of Variants Orthographic Variants The most common type of variation involves orthography. In general the most common ...

other variants occur between the parallel texts, but in C:X there are no variants at all be- tween the sources. The discussion w ...

may instead be a characteristic of the scribes’ approach to copying astronomical texts. Against the latter view we could point t ...

which see M66, M113, M240, M257 and M283. In four places the same variation is indi- cated by the form of the verbal predicate, ...

ies. One expansive plus is found at M226, where the title “the Shepherd” in tablet W, re- ferring to the constellation Orion, is ...

Similarly M279 and M284 show that different sources could indicate that different con- stellations became visible at certain tim ...

CHAPTER 6 – THE LAWS OF HAMMURABI The Text The following tablets represent copies made of a series of laws bookended by a poetic ...

The Tablets The first millennium copies of the Laws of Hammurabi examined here are both Neo- Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian in orig ...

Table - Laws of Hammurabi: Tablets Under Examination Siglum Museum Number B BM34914 C BE35271^338 D K10778 J 1 K4223 J 2 Sm1008a ...

Wiseman, who also considered that the tablet may have been copied from a Vorlage dif- ferent to the Louvre stele.^341 C, BE35271 ...

L, K10483 This is a Neo-Assyrian fragment from Kuyunjik first published by Meissner.^346 N, K8905 This Neo-Assyrian fragment fro ...

T, K10485 This is a Neo-Assyrian fragment from Kuyunjik. It was published by Meissner in 1908.^350 W, VAT991 This tablet, now at ...

c, Sm26 This is a fragment from a Neo-Assyrian tablet. Like tablet b, this fragment was excavated at the Southwest Palace at Kuy ...

is an exhaustive list of all variant readings between any two first millennium sources for the Laws of Hammurabi that overlap in ...

167 Table - Variants in the Parallel Sources for the Laws of Hammurabi Comparison: Text vs Text TOTAL PLL Ortho-graphic Variants ...