J 1 i 23 lu omission of conjunction.^427
(^) H137 LH xa 5 (^) pu-úḫ-šu (^) OV – Different spelling of the
J 1 i 28 pu-uḫ-šu noun ment” in J. √pūḫu, “substitute, replace-
(^) H138 LH xa 31 (^) ù-lu (^) SV(1) – Lexical interchange or
J 1 i 31 lu omission of conjunction.^428
(^) H139 LH xa 10 (^) mu-na-ag-gi-ir-šu (^) OV – J has CV-CV-VC against
J 1 i 33 mu-na-gi-ir-š[u] CV-VC-CV-VC in LH.
H140 LH xa 11 É-sú OV – The possessive pronominal
J 1 i 34 É-su suffix is written with the sign SU in J.
(^) H141 LH xa 13 (^) lu (^) SV(1) – J omits the conjunction lū.
J 1 i 35 omits
H142 LH xa 14 ù lu-ú SV(1) – Lexical interchange or
J 1 i 35 lu omission of conjunction. 429
H143 LH xa 15 dan-na-at OV – J has defective orthography for the bound form of the noun
√dannatu, “fortress.”
J 1 i 36 da-na-at
(^) H144 LH xa 18 (^) wa-ar-[k]i-šu (^) OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
J 2 i 2 a-ar-[ ] nunciation.^430
(^427) Several options are available for describing this variation. J can be read as (i) omitting the first conjunc-
tion in a fixed pair of coordinating conjunctions: (u) lū, “(and) either;” (ii) a lexical interchange where a
compound conjunction is exchanged with a single conjunction: u+lū > lū; (iii) an elision of the first vowel
of a lexeme ulū, “or.” The latter (iii) is unlikely in light of the fact that he scribe of J apparently knew both
the forms u lū (J 1 i 27 and ii 17) and lū (here and J 1 i 31 and 35) and treated them as homonyms. In this
instance it is conceivable that, with the elision of the first particle lū (see H135), the scribe dropped the
conjunction before the next particle lū as superfluous: šumma rēdûm lū bā’irum, “if a runner or a fisher.”
Against this see J 1 i 30-31 where the particle lū is used redundantly before each element in the protasis
without the conjunction preceding the second instance: lū rēdûm lū bā’irum, “either the runner or the
fisher.” See CAD L 226-27, esp. 227b, for the use of the paired coordinating conjunctions “either ... or,”
with and without the compounded conjunction 428 u. See also H138, H142 and H168 below.
429 See note above.
430 See note above.
The stele has the archaic form of √(w)arka, “afterward”, retaining the initial /w/.