H94 LH iva 26 ÌD.UD.KIB.NUN.NA OV – The name of the river
B v 32 ÌD.UD.KIB.NUN.KI phrates is written differently be-tween the sources. (^403)
(^) H95 LH iva 27 ì-tum (^) d da-gan (^) SV(2) – Exchange of lexemes in
B v 33 d ÍD u d da-gan B, perhaps for the purpose of clari-fication. (^404)
H96 B v 34 šá LH iva 29 šu SV(1) – Lexical interchange.^405
(^) H97 LH iva 30 me-ra (^) ki OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
B v 34 me-ri ki (^) nunciation. 406
H98 LH iva 31 tu-tu-ul ki OV(l) – Different pronunciation of
B v 35 tu-ul-tu-ul proper noun. 407
H99 LH iva 32 B v 36 ru-bu-um [ ]-ú OV(l) – B lacks mimation.
H100 LH iva 35 pa-ni OV(l) – B lacks the ultimate vowel on the bound form of √panû,
“face.”
B vi 1 pa-an
H101 LH iva 35 B vi 1 dd INANNA SUḪ Not Counted – The reading in LH is uncertain. (^408)
(^403) See G.R. Driver and J.C. Miles, (^) Babylonian Laws, 140, on the various spellings of the Sumerian
BURA.NUN, “the great river,” Euphrates. B has the more common form here, also found in the Old Baby-
lonian duplicate stele AO10237. 404
The phrase ittum dDagan, “oracular sign of the god Dagan,” is written as dIdu u dDagan, “the god Naru
and the god Dagan,” in B (where ÍD = I 7 = dNaru). It is possible that the scribe of B misunderstood the term
ittu in the stele as the proper noun Id plus a conjunction. The scribe then re-wrote the misread lexemes ap-
propriately. 405
The variant in B is read as the exchange of an emphatic pronoun for a relative particle. See also H82
above. 406
The ancient city name Mari is spelled variously as Ma-uru, Ma-e-ri, Ma-a-ri and Ma-ri. See G.R. Driver
and J.C. Miles, 407 Babylonian Laws, 141, and the references there.
The spelling in B is identified from Assyrian sources with the city Ît (uru I-it). The Old Babylonian dupli-
cate stele AO10237 has “TU.TU,” and both B and AO10237 lack the place post-determinative KI.
(^408) The sign now read as SUḪ (∽) was originally read as NÍN (∹) by A. Ungnad, Keilschrifttexte der
Gesetze Hammurapis. The reading SUḪ, signifying the god Tišpak, was suggested following the re-