H27 LH ia 49 ib-bu-ú OV(l) – B and C preserve the
B ii 5 C i 3 ib-bi-ù ib-bi-ù diphthong in final weak invoke.” √nabû, “to
(^) H28 LH ia 51 (^) re-yu-um (^) OV – The long vowel in medial
B ii 7 C i 4 [r]e-yu-ú-um re-yu-um weak in B. √re’û, “shepherd,” is written
H29 LH ia 52 ni-bi-it OV – Different spelling of the noun √nibītu, “chosen, (one)
called,” in B.
B ii 8 ni-bí-it
C i 5 ni-bi-it
H30 LH ia 54 B ii 9 mu-kam-mu-kam-me-er ˹mi˺-i[r nunciation.OV(l) – Possible difference in pro- (^366)
C i 6 mu-kam-mi-ir
(^) H31 LH iia 3 (^) ki-ib-ra-at (^) OV(l) – B has the archaic ending,
B ii 20 ki-ib-ra-tim lacking in LH. 367
H32 LH iia 5 mu-šar-bí OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
B ii 21 mu-šar-bí-u nunciation. 368
H33 B ii 22 lìb-bi LH iia 8 li-bi-i OV – B has CVC against CV-VC in LH.
(^) H34 LH iia 10 (^) u
4 -mi-šu SV(1) – Difference in gender of the possessive pronominal suf-
fix.^369
B ii 23 u 4 -mi-ša-am
(^366) The spelling in LH reflects [e] as an allophone of /i/ when occurring before /r/ (see J. Huehnergard,
Grammar, 592). This spelling is not reflected in B and C, which perhaps show a later orthographic devel-
opment where the phones [i] and [e] are in free variation as allophones of /i/, or where the phonemes /i/ and
/e/ are in free variation (see the references to note above). 367
The full phrase is tīb kibrāt erbettim, “onslaught on the four regions (of the world).” The full genitive
ending with mimation in B is an archaism, cf. the archaic form of the idiom in the Hymn to Ištar (RA 22
91), and in an inscription from the reign of Hammurabi ( 368 CT 21 41 iib 7-8).
B has a possible case vowel appended to the III/1 participle form of final weak √rabû, “to be large,
great.” B reads: mušarbiu zikru Bābli, “(who) magnifies the name of Babylon,” against the bound form in
the stele: mušarbi zikru Bābli, “magnifier of the name of Babylon” (cf. the table in J. Huehnergard, Gram-
mar, 62). An alternative reading is that both sources have the same form of the participle, where B has a
Neo-Assyrian form with uncontracted post-tonic /i/, cf. J. Hämeen-Anttila, A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian
Grammar (SAAS XIII Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2000) 36. For other examples of final
weak verbs written with diphthongal endings see H27, H62, H125 and H207 (but contra H122 and H127).