BM 039005 (unpublished unassigned ?) [Commentary (Miscellanea)]


Obverse
1'1'	[...] x [...]	...
2'2'	[...] x-ka-⸢du^?⸣ [...]	...
3'3'	[x x x] : pa-la-su : ⸢a^?⸣-[...]1	[...] means "to look;" [...]
4'4'	[x x (x)]-am : ḫa-ta-ri : ⸢x⸣-[...]2	[...] means "to wag" (the tail) [...]
5'5'	[x] ⸢x⸣ ana za-ap-pi : ⸢be-x⸣-nu lìb-bu-⸢ú⸣ [...]	[...] said of a tuft of hair (or, of the Plejades), ... as in [...].
6'6'	⸢lìb-bu⸣-ú NU ta-pa-⸢x⸣-kab lum-⸢x⸣ [...]3	as in "do not ..." [...]
7'7'	šu-ke-nu : la-ban ap-pi : it-⸢ti⸣ [...]4	"To prostrate oneself" means "to stroke one's nose;" ... [...]
8'8'	BAD/NU ut-tu-u : a-ma-rù : nu-uk-ku^?-⸢du⸣ [: ...]5	In "... he will discover," ("to discover" means) "to see." "To be anxious," [...]
9'9'	ṣa-⸢i^?⸣-du : ṣa-a-du : a-la-ku : ⸢x x⸣ [...]	"Roaming" stems from "to roam," which means "to go;" [...]
10'10'	a-lik maḫ-ri ⸢: pe⸣-tu-u šá piš-⸢ri⸣ [...]	"Leader" means "he who reveals the interpretation" [...]
11'11'	[x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [...]	...

1Perhaps palāsu = amāru.

2The verb ḫatāru is only attested in K.4110 60 (CT 39 30), a manuscript of Šumma Ālu 79

3This line may contain a literary quotation.

4The equation šukēnu = labān appi is elsewhere known only in the hemerological compilation BM 34584+ l. 121-122 (Jiménez JCS 68 [2016] p. 210).

5Note that nukkudu is followed by ṣaʾādu in Ea II 93-94 (MSL 14 p. 251), as in lines 8'-9' here.

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