Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
It is noteworthy that the only stylistic variants of type 2 occur in the Late Babylonian
school texts. The three variants of this type are all expansive in nature. Tablet S lacks the
object in the opening phrase of the tablet (P1). Tablet T seems to have a reference to an
incipit that is not known from any of the other sources (P11). Finally tablet U has the ap-
parent addition of one verb that lacks an object, but may be taken as an additional instruc-
tion relating to the clearing of the ritual space (P23).