H107 LH iva 42 qer-bu-um OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
(^) C v 1 B vi 6 qé-re-eb qer-bu nunciation.^413
(^) H108 LH iva 43 (^) KÁ.DINGIR.RA ki (^) OV – B lacks the post-position de-
B vi 7 C v 1 KÁ.DINGIR.RA KÁ.DINGIR.RA ki terminative KI.
H109 LH iva 45 B vi 8 ni-ši ni-šì noun OV – Different spelling of the √nišū, “people.”
C v 3 ni-ši
H110 LH iva 47 B vi 9 išd INANNA 8 -tár OV – The proper noun Ištar is written logographically in B.
C v 4 [ ]-tár
(^) H111 LH iva 48 (^) mu-ki-in-ni OV(l) – Possible difference in pro-
B vi 10 mu-ki-in nunciation. 414
H112 LH iva 48 iš 8 -tár OV – The proper noun Ištar is
C v 5 B vi 10 d[ ]- INANNA ˹tár˺ written logographically in B.
(^) H113 LH iva 50 (^) qer-bu-um (^) OV – B has CV-VC against CVC
B vi 11 qé-er-bu-um in LH.
(^413) B lacks the case ending in the bound form of (^) √qerbu, “midst, middle” (see also H100 and H104 above,
plus H111 and H212 below), displaying the expected later grammatical form qereb (cf. J. Huehnergard,
Grammar, 59, where “nouns of the type pVrs ... have the shape pVrVs, in which a copy of the vowel that
appears between R 1 and R 2 is also inserted between R 2 and R 3 ”). C lacks mimation, and has the ‘-u’ vowel
appended to the bound form of the noun √qerbu. This is probably an archaism reflecting the retention of the
case ending ‘-um’ on the nomen regens that the stele preserves. In C, though, the lack of mimation indicates
that the vowel ‘-u’ is grammatically extraneous, where according to J. Huehnergard, Grammar, 57-62, we
would expect qereb or perhaps qerbi, but not qerbu. See also H113 below for the archaic form with the full
case ending in B, and H117 where LH has the expected short vowel /i/ appended to the bound form of
√ 414 šapû, “to silence, subdue.”
B lacks the short ultimate vowel that appears in the stele appended to the noun in the construct state (cf.
note above). The short vowel /i/ appears “sporadically beside the vowelless form of the construct state”
according to G.R. Driver and J.C. Miles, Babylonian Laws, 142.