M23 A i 9 mul LUGAL OV – The preposition determinative
for the sign MÚL in C, against MUL in kakkabu, “star,” is written with
the other sources.
C i 2 AA i 8 múmull LUGAL LUGAL^
BB 12 DD 7 mulm[u LUGALl
(^) M24 AA i 9 (^) DIŠ MUL SV(1) – The preposition determina-
BB 13 MUL tive DIŠ is lacking in BB and CC.
CC 10 M[UL
M25 AA i 9 MUL OV – AA has an unmarked plural, kakkabū, “star,” marked as plural
with MEŠ in BB.^251
BB 13 MUL meš
(^) M26 A i 10 (^) l]u-tum (^) OV – A and AA preserve mimation,
(^) BB 13 um-mu-lu-tu AA i 9 um-mu-lu-tum lacking in BB and DD.^252
DD 8 m]u-lu-tú
M27 E i 1 GUB-zu OV – BB marks the plural verb iz-
(^) BB 14 GUB AA i 9 GUB-zu meš the other sources.zazzū with the sign MEŠ, lacking in (^253)
DD 8 GUB-zu
(^251) AA has the plural adjective “um-mu-lu-tum,” “faint, dusky” attached to the noun MUL so there can be
little doubt that the noun is also plural. The singular noun would require the singular adjective ummulum –
see J. Huehnergard, 252 A Grammar of Akkadian (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005^2 ) 24.
BB and DD also differ from each other in the spelling of the final syllable. On the loss of mimation see
J. Huehnergard, 253 Grammar, 258-59, and 596.
The verb is marked as plural in BB and with a phonetic complement in the other sources. The phonetic
complement “-zu” in E, AA, and DD evidently marks the long final vowel of the plural verb izzazzū be-
cause, at least in AA and DD, the adjective describing the subject is clearly plural (see also M63 and com-
pare M66). The form “GUB-zu” is singular in A i 35 (M68), but compare the singular forms “GUB” in BB
(M68) and “GUB-iz” in EE (M72). A also has a phonetic complement for the plural form “GUB meš-zu” in
A i 33 (M66) and A ii 25 (M109). E and DD preserve the verb but not the adjective, and both are in agree-
ment with AA. On the reading of the root as *zwz, “to stand,” see J. Huehnergard, "izzuzzum and itûlum,"
Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (ed. A.
Abusch; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002) 162.