H50 B iii 14 LH iia 48 ma-tim ma-a-[ ] “land,” is written in B. OV – The long vowel in √mātu,
(^) H51 LH iia 54 (^) É-É.GAL.MAḪ OV – The proper noun Egalmaḫ is
B iii 20 É.GAL.MA C ii 5 É-É.GAL.MAḪ (^) Ḫ in B.written without the first logogram (^377)
H52 LH iia 55 B iii 20 šàr-rí šà[r ] SV(1) – Possible added gloss in C. (^378)
C ii 6 šàr-šàr ?-ru 9? (^)
H53 LH iia 59 uru kiš ki OV – The proper noun Kiš is
B iii 23 kiš C ii 9 uru kiš ki (^) k[i] written without the city name determinative in B.
(^) H54 LH iia 61 (^) me-le-em-mi (^) OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
B iii 25 me-lam-mu C ii 11 me-le-em-m[i] nunciation.^379
H55 LH iia 63 B iii 26 mu-uš-te-ši-ir mu-uš-te-eṣ-bi SV(1) – Lexical interchange.^380
C ii 13 mu-uš-te-e ṣ-bi
H56 B iii 28 É LH iia 66 bi-tim OV – The noun written logographically in B. √bītu, “house,” is
H57 B iii 29 na-ki-riLH iia 68 na-ki-ri OV – Different spellings of the noun nakru, “enemy.” (^381)
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(^377) D.J. Wiseman, "Hammurabi Again," 170, notes this as a possible error.
(^378) The second sign in C has the more common palaeography for the sign ŠÀR against the defective palae-
ography of the first writing of this sign. The final sign in C (ru 9 ) is a phonetic complement and the wrong
case vowel for the genitive singular. 379
B has the unbound form of the noun √melammu, “radiance,” within the genitive construction melemmi
Emeteursag 380 , “the radiance of Emeteursag.”
It is likely that B exchanges a difficult term with a more familiar term. LH and C have √šuteṣbû, “to
execute (something) according to a plan,” (see CAD Ṣ 227a), while B has √šutešuru, “to put into good or-
der” (see CAD E 359a and D.J. Wiseman, "Hammurabi Again," 171 n. 1). On the term mušteṣbi in LH, see
G.R. Driver and J.C. Miles, 381 Babylonian Laws, 130.
D.J. Wiseman, "Hammurabi Again," 171 n. 2, and R. Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke, 8, and
M.E.J. Richardson, Hammurabi's Laws, 32 n. 39, read B as “na-ki-du,” but reading the final sign as RI 6 is
also plausible based on Wiseman’s drawing.