W 1 ii 30 pe-ḫe-e šá GIŠ.MÁ a-na m
pu-zu-
G80 WC ii 4’ m pu-zu-ur-d[ OV – The proper noun determinative in W. 554 Puzur-Enlil lacks the
1 ii 30 pu-zu-
G81 JC ii 5’ at-ta-din OV – J prCVC in C and W. esumably has [CV-V]C against
W^1 ii 39’ 1 ii 31 [ i]n at-[ta]-˹din˺
G82 WC ii 7’ iš-tu SV(1) – The preposition ultu in W. 555 ištu in C appears as
1 ii 33 u[l-tu]
G83 J W 1 ii 42’ ir-tam-ma-am-ma SV(1) – Lexical interchange.^556
1 ii 34a iš/ir-(t)ag]- ˹gu-um˺^
G84 C ii 10’ GU.ZA.LÁ.MEŠ OV – The plural noun in W lacks the plural
J W 1 ii 44’ [ ME]Š marker MEŠ.^557
1 ii 35 gu-za-lú- ˹ú˺^
G85 JC ii 11’ d er-ra-kal OV(l) – Possible difference in pronuncia-tion. (^558)
1 ii 45’ [ g]al
G86 C ii 11’ ú-n[a SV(1) – Apparent difference in verbal mor-
(^554) The possible orthographic variant where W lacks the sign UR in the name (^) Puzur-Enlil is not counted as
the tablet is too damaged to allow a certain reading. 555
A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 429, lists this variant among “minor differences in words or expressions.” The
change /š/ > /l/ before a voiced velar plosive is termed a Babylonianism in J. Hämeen-Anttila, Neo-
Assyrian Grammar, 22 n. 30. The case here involves a voiceless dental plosive, but a similar change in
pronunciation may be detected. J. Huehnergard, Grammar, 596, states that this phonological shift before /t/
is a feature of Standard Babylonian. See also G211 and G231 below. 556
This is counted as a lexical interchange √ragāmu, “shout, exclaim,” and √ramāmu, “roar, rumble.” A.R.
George, Gilgamesh, 884, notes that iš(t)agamma/irtagamma is “probably more original than ... irtam-
mamma 557 .”
558 The plural noun in W is marked with the spelling of long ‘-u’ instead of the plural marker MEŠ.
The sources apparently disagree in the use of a voiced or unvoiced velar fricative in the pronunciation of
this proper noun. See M. Luukko, Neo-Assyrian, 71, on the possibility of the pronunciation of a voiced /q/
in Neo-Assyrian letters.