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1For the equations of the Elamite month names, see HeBAI 4/3, 338-39, §3 and 8.

2Perhaps ⸢^ú⸣[IGI]-lim.

3Šumma Ālu 59: 5?, cf. 4. Or: [i^?]-⸢mi^?⸣-ṣa EGIR x (cf. 59: 4) ⸢UGU^?⸣ mi-na-ti-šú a-tar. šá possibly written over erased :. One would have expected the double horizontal ruling after this line and not before it. But perhaps the restoration is wrong and the line explains A.DIR (line 6) instead. UGU is uncertain.

4Šumma Ālu 59: 10 (^gišGEŠTIN.KA₅.A). At the end, perhaps ⸢an⸣-[x]-nu-te^?. For possible equations of the karān-šēlibi-plant (which can be written as here), see CAD K, 201f.

5Beginning resembles ^úgiš-sa₄-x; one would expect ^úÙZ.SAR (59: 12). ^úḪAŠḪUR according to CAD M/2 in Uruanna III 429 identified with me/ikû, but the reading with attached ^gišGI is more likely. The note at the end a reference to diʾu in 59: 12?

6Šumma Ālu 59: 19 (^gišESI). At the end perhaps ^dIDIM ⸢: x⸣ GAL^?.

7Šumma Ālu 59: 20 (^d⸢IDIM⸣ ina ZU.AB ia-a-dar). Perhaps the waters at the source?

8Šumma Ālu 59: 21 (DIŠ ^gišGEŠTIN A.DIR ^dnin-giš-zi-da di-iʾ-a ina KUR GAR^an, “If grapevine grows, Ningišzida will put diʾu-disease in the land”). As noted by H. Stadhouders (email 7/2016), in lines 12ff the commentator refers to Diri V 233-237 (MSL 15, 176): ku-ru-unKAŠ.DIN = kurunnu, šikaru, sību, karānu, damu. As further suggested by Stadhouders, “blood” is a nickname of wine because of its color; Stadhouders points to the “Bulls Blood” wine from Eger in Hungary.

9Šumma Ālu 59: 21 (^dnin-giš-zi-da). Possibly quotation from a bilingual text. One would rather expect the Sumerian version of the name of the sky god in the first half of the quotation. Note that Ningišzida is also referred to in the other DIR-utu commentary!

10Difficult to understand; quotation? Apparently, MU.TIN is read mu₆(PA)-te-en, PA is then explained as mukil (cf. UGULA(PA) = aklu in the next line), and te-en is linked to nisakku “first fruits” (Ningišzida as provider of fertility?). Or should one read: mu-tinₓ(KIL)^?-ni NISAG-ga^? In the next line, the word is associated with sacrifices.

11Note that there is also an Akkadian word patinnu (a headband), but this is probably not what is meant here. The commentator equates mu₆(PA)-tin-nu with ^dnin-giš-zi-da by arguing that PA = UGULA means “overseer” and TIN “alcohol beverage,” and pointing out that Ningišzida is identical with the beer god, who is in charge of alcoholic beverages. [Alternatively, one might interpret ak-lu as “food”; if this is the case, the commentary would interpret the name of “wine” as containing both “food and drink,” i.e., as the ultimate wholesome beverage, EJ].

12One BI-sign too many? Apparently another quotation

13Šumma Ālu 59: 30 (⸢¶⸣ [UD] ⸢^ú⸣[ḫa]-⸢ab⸣-bu-ru pe-⸢ṣe⸣-e it-tab-ši) and Šumma Ālu 59: 32 (¶ UD ^úkàs-si-bi i-te-bi).

14The equation between kassibu and kasia (NB for kasû), not attested elsewhere, is probably based on their phonetic similarity.

15Šumma Ālu 59: 33 (A.ŠÀ BI i-wa-bi-iʾ). Read at the beginning: [šá-niš i]-⸢te⸣-bi? Cf. line 24. Verb derived from wiāṣu?? The sign read as maš^? looks more like ⸢šá⸣.

16Šumma Ālu 59: 34 (^úu₅-ra-nu and it-tab-ši). The equation between urânu and arantu also attested in Ḫg; see CAD U/W, 207a. an-da-ma-tu₄ is a (so far unattested?) form of the plant name adamatu (for which see CAD A/1, 94). The verb at the end probably derived from mâdu; cf. NA in-ta-ʾi-id in ABL 463: 13 (CAD M/1, 27a), as well as the equation it-tab-ši : im-te-du in line 24.

17Šumma Ālu 59: 36 (^úsa-as-su). Cf. Šumma Ālu 59: 37 (^úà(PI)^a-mi-ra-nu). See CAD S, 194-96. The plant name sassu attested only here. The base text has ^úà(PI)-mi-ra-nu in line 37.

18One could consider restoring ^úmur-ra-nu at the beginning (59: 39), but perhaps it is more likely to assume this is the continuation of the explanation provided in the previous line. See CAD M/2, 106b s. v. mirgirānu; in Uruanna II 370 explained as ^úMIN<(as-ḫar)>.

19Šumma Ālu 59: 37/38 ([i]-te-bi) and Šumma Ālu 59: 39ff. (it-tab-ši)

20Šumma Ālu 59: 41 ([^ú]⸢IM⸣.MAN.⸢DU⸣) and Šumma Ālu 59: 42 ([^ú]⸢ip⸣-tu₄). For the reading of ^úIM.MAN.DU as suādu/sumādu, see CAD 338-39 and MZL, 404, no. 708. The second plant name probably not to be read as [^ú]⸢ṭu⸣-ṭu₄(TUM), despite lines 32-33; the reading ip-tu₄ in the base text (K 2882) seems certain (collated from photo).

21Šumma Ālu 59: 42 ([EN-šú NU] ⸢TE⸣-šú) and Šumma Ālu 59: 45 (^úa-la-pu-ú).

22Šumma Ālu 59: 45 (cf. i-ma-du) and Šumma Ālu 59: 46 (⸢iš-bab-tu₄⸣). The commentator apparently misunderstand (or reinterpreted) the base text, where it seems one must read EN-šu i-ma-at “its (the field’s) owner will die.”

23Šumma Ālu 59: 46 (EN-šú IGI-šu i-kat₇(ŠU)-tam(UD)). Var. of mallaḫtu (a type of saline grass). At the end of the line, the commentator seems to have misunderstood the sign sequence I ŠU UD (actually: i-kat₇-tam) as representing a (fictitious) verb išūṭ.

24Misunderstanding of ipette in the base text (K 2882)? Note, however, that the reading of the last sign there as te is not completely certain; on the photo, it looks more like tú (not la, though). ^úa-ra-KI-ra-nu apparently an otherwise unattested variant of arariānu (or another mistake?).

25The first word might be a form of the plant name alluzu. The apodosis in the base text (K 2882) is to be read as ⸢A.ŠÀ BI ŠU-MIN EN⸣-šu NU GUR⸢^ár⸣.

26The equation ŠU = biltu is attested in the lexical tradition, see CAD B, 229b.

27The plant names ^útu-ud-du-mu-um and ^úṭu-uṭ-ṭu-um are apparently not attested anywhere else.

28The assumption that this entry deals with 59: 49 is based on the possibility that K 2882, rev. 29 (= 49) is to be read as [... a^?-^pi?]⸢pu⸣-um. The rest of the entry might have been included in the following line (perhaps to be read as [ina mi-ri-šu u Ú-ḪI.A i]-⸢ta⸣-[ri]).