M60 A i 26 AA i 25 né-bu-ú né-bu-u OV – AA has the sign U for the final vowel, written as Ú in A and BB.
BB 34 né-bu-ú
M61 F 10 DIŠ 2 A i 27 DIŠ 2 SV(1) – The preposition determina-tive DIŠ is lacking in BB.
BB 36 2
(^) M62 A i 27 (^) šá (^) OV – The relative particle ša is writ-
(^) BB 36 ša AA i 26 šá ten with the sign ŠA in BB, against ŠÁ in A and AA.
(^) M63 A i 27 (^) GUB meš-zu OV – The plural marker in AA and
EE is lacking although the beginning
of the line clearly requires a plural noun in all sources. (^264)
AA i 26 GUB-z[u
EE i 3 GU]B-zu
(^) M64 A i 32 (^) DIŠ mul SV(1) – The preposition determina-
BB 44 mul^ tive DIŠ is lacking in BB.
(^) M65 A i 32 (^) um-mu-lu-tu
4 OV – A and T spell the final syllable with the sign TU 4 , written as TU in
EE. BB is broken and therefore un-
certain.
(^) BB 44 um-mu-lu-t[u] T i 6 m]u-lu-tu 4
EE i 10 ]mu-lu-tu
M66 A i 33 GUB meš-zu SV(1) – A and BB have the plural
marker MEŠ for positioned,” referring to multiple izzazzū, “they are
jects, while T lacks the plural marker. The context seems to require that T
refers to the constellation in the sin-
gular.^265
(^) BB 45 GUB T i 6 GUB-zu meš
(^264) Most of the line is preserved in A, F, and BB, which read: “(DIŠ) 2 MUL (^) (meš) šá EGIR-šú GUB (meš)-
zu ...,” 2 kakkabū ša arkišu izzazzū ..., “Two stars that are positioned after it ....” The reading of the form
“GUB-zu” as the plural verb izzazzū is therefore certain. On the function of the phonetic complement “-zu”
to mark the plural verb 265 izzazzū see note above.
T may refer to multiple subjects with a defective plural as was read in M27. However, the broken con-
text of T makes it impossible to determine if there are in reality several subjects mentioned in this source.
The possibility remains that T refers to the constellation Manzât, “the Rainbow,” in the singular even
though it is likely that the reference is to the three stars Andromedae 18, 32 and δ (31).