G107 J 1 iii 20 mu-šá-a-ti SV(2) – Extra cardinal number in T.^574
T 1 iii 5 ˹ 7 ˺[ ]
G108 J 1 iii 21 il-lak šá-a-ru a-bu-me˺-ḫu-ú ˹bu SV(3) – J preserves a different word order compared to T. (^575)
T 1 iii 6 il-lak šá-ḫu-ú a-b[u ˹a˺-ru ra-a-du mi-
G109 J T 1 iii 21 (omits) SV(2) – J lacks the term rādu, “downpour.”
1 iii 6 ra-a-du
G110 C iii 20a 7-ú u 4 - ˹mu OV – J writes the ordinal number syllabically.
J T 1 iii 22a se-bu-ú u4-mu
1 iii 7a 7- ˹ú u^4 ˺-m[u
G111 C iii 20a J ina OV – The preposJ. ition is written syllabically in
1 iii 22a i-na
G112 C iii 20a J ina ka-šá˺-[a]-˹du˺ OV(l) – C has the wrong case vowel for the genitive singular. (^576)
T^11 iii 22a iii 7a k]a-šá-di i-na ka-šá-a-˹di˺^
G113 J T 1 iii 22a ka-šá-a-˹di˺ OV – The long vowel in J. √kašādu is written in
1 iii 7a k]a-šá-di
(^574) Though broken, the sign partially preserved in T, probably “7,” seems to be a number and not the sign
MU (see the drawing in A.R. George, Gilgamesh, pl. 130). The expression in J, 6 urra u mūšāti, is restored
in T as 6 urri u 7 mūšāti, even though the actual numbers are ultimately uncertain. We can only read T as
holding extra, not necessarily contradictory, information; as A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 515-16 notes: “the
number of nights on MS T could be almost anything.” In light of this fact an expansionary stylistic varia-
tion is counted rather a hermeneutic variation. 575
J has šāru abūbu meḫu, “wind, flood, storm,” against šāru rādu miḫu abubu, “wind, downpour, storm,
flood” in T. A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 888, notes that T is closer to the text of Atra-ḫasīs. The linguistic
variation between the spelling of the word 576 meḫu / miḫu is not counted in the light of Rule 3.
The expected case vowel for the I/1 infinitive √kašādu, “to arrive,” is /i/ for genitive singular because
the infinitive follows the preposition ina. C can be read as reflecting an irregular Kuyunjik orthography
where /i/ > /u/ for genitive singular, cf. A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 440.