G221 C v 3 iš-tak-ka-ni OV(l) – Possible difference in grammatical
J 1 iv 47 iš-tak-ka-an form. 630
G222 C v 4 J u OV – The conjunction is written with the sign U in C.
1 iv 48 ˹ ù˺^
G223 C v 5 iš-ta-at OV – The feminine form of the ordinal num-ber išteat, “one,” is written syllabically in C
and J.
J 1 iv 49 t]a-˹at˺
j v 7’ 1[
G224 C v 8 j v 11’ 7[ se-˹bu˺-tum OV – The ordinal number is written syllabically in C. šebūtum, “seven,”
(^) G225 C v 8 (^) i-˹te˺-gél-ta-˹a˺[ (^) OV(l) – Difference in stem or tense. (^631)
J 1 v 1 ig-gél-ta-a
(^) G226 C v 9 (^) MU-ra (^) OV(l) – J lacks the ventive suffix. (^632)
J 1 v 2 MU-ár
G227 J 1 v 2 ru-qí OV – The long vowel in the medial weak
T^1 iv 6’ r]u-ú-qí √ rūqu, “faraway, distant,” is written in T.
G228 C v 12 J d G[IŠ-gí]m-maš OV – J has the masculine proper noun deter-minative preceding the divine determinative.
T^11 v 5 iv 9’ md GIŠ-gím-maš d GIŠ-gím-maš
(^) G229 J
T^11 v 6 iv 11’ u]m-ma-ti-ka ku-ru-um-me-ti-ka tion.OV(l) – Possible difference in pronuncia-^633
(^630) The final vowel in C may be read as a defective form of the Neo-Assyrian subjunctive maker, ‘ (^) - ū ... ni,’
cf. J. Hämeen-Anttila, Neo-Assyrian Grammar, 92, or as a redundant final vowel, cf. A.R. George, Gil-
gamesh, 442. The latter is more likely, perhaps under the influence of the I/3 feminine singular imperative
form in line 221 šitakkanī (according to the line numbering in A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 716). If, on the
other hand, a subjunctive form is assumed, one would have to read the form in C as a defective writing of
ištakkanūni > ištakkani, where the subjunctive marker ‘-ū’ has dropped out entirely, and the final conso-
nant of the root škn, “to put, place,” has assimilated to the subjunctive marker ‘-ni.’ Such a reading is pos-
sible but unlikely. On the ‘serial’ sense of the I/3 form of this root, meaning “to place (objects) one by one
in a row,” see A.R. George, 631 Gilgamesh, 893.
See CAD N 1 106b, and A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 427, where this variant is listed as a “difference of
tense, stem or mood.” The form in C is a IV/1 perfect or IV/2 preterite of the intransitive verb √nagaltû, “to
awake,” while the form in J is read as a IV/1 preterite. 632
See also G1, G182 and G233, and note above.