M75 A i 37 né-bi-ri OV(l) – A and EE have different
EE i 17 d né-be-ru spellings for the title Nēberu.^268
M76 A i 38 T i 11 KÚR.KÚR-ir KÚR.KÚR-ma OV – T lacks the phonetic comple-ment “-ir” present in A and EE.
EE i 18 KÚR.KÚR-ir
M77 A i 38 KÚR.KÚR-ir SV(1) – T has the emphatic particle
T i 11 EE i 18 KÚR.KÚR-ma KÚR.KÚR-ir “-ma,” lacking in A and EE.
(^) M78 A i 40 (^) IGI (^) OV – The logogram in A and T is
T i 13 EE i 22 IGI pa-an written fully in EE.
M79 A i 40 T i 13 MUL MUL meš SV(1) – Difference in number.^269
EE i 22 MUL meš (^)
M80 A i 43 lú ḪUN.GÁ OV – The preposition determinative
T i 16 FF i 7 Ḫlú UN.GÁ ḪUN.GÁ lacking in T. LÚ, denoting a professional office, is
(^) M81 A ii 1 (^) d is l[e (^) OV – The title is lê appears without
FF i 9 is le-e the preposition determinative
(^268) The difference in final vowels could represent a grammatical variation, although the more likely expla-
naition is that this is a simple orthographic variant. The full title in A is “MUL d AMAR.UD (d)né-bi-ri/u,”
kakkab Marduk Nēberi, “the star Marduk of the Ford.” EE has the preposition determinative DINGIR pre-
ceding the second noun, probably indicating a separate title that is not bound to the first noun Marduk.
Thus in EE the two titles are both independent and nominative. Indeed, the name Nēberu appears inde-
pendently as “mul ne-bi-rù” in two other astonomical lists, CT 26 41 v 1, and CT 26 44 ii 12. For a similar
variation in the case vowel on a proper noun see M91 below. 269
The plural marker MEŠ is lacking in T, denoting a singular noun, while A and EE have the plural noun
marked with MEŠ. The plural noun in A and EE refers to the kakkabī šūt Anu, “the stars of Anu.” The read-
ing of the singular in T is similar to the singular noun that refers to multiple stars in the constellation Man-
zât (see V66 and note ).