OrNS 59, 481[via caspo]

1A series of MU signs on the left edge of the cylinder is inscribed at 90° to the main text. The only two signs still on the cylinder occur to the left of lines 28 and 29.

2The series of U₂ signs on the right edge is inscribed at 90° to the main text on the cylinder.

3The line is part of the ornamentation of the cylinder. The series of SA signs is inscribed on this line to designate the beginning of the main text, the prayer to Nabu that follows. There are a few wedges clustered on the end of the cylinder (the end with the museum number on it) just about where the line of SA signs occurs on the cylinder's side, perhaps providing an easy point of reference for the first line of text.

4I'm not sure about the reading of this line. Lambert Folio no. 009938 reads gaš]an-iá, "my lady."

5Although not on Mayer's copy, it looks to me like there may be traces of a final GA, which has been written over by the series of U₂ signs on the right edge.

6The KU₃ has an extra Winkelhaken.

7On the construct chain and the phonetics of bu-ru-u₂ for burūmû, see Mayer 1990: 465-466.

8RAT and RI are close enough in form to posit a mistake here. All other witnesses (to date, 12/2023) have RAT.

9I follow Mayer 1990: 462 in thinking the EŠ is a mistake for an alef.

10Mayer 1990: 462 provides a full reconstruction of the line's head. The translation here follows CAD A/2, 18.

11I wonder if we might read i-na! (erasure) ŠA₃ x# šu#-ri-<iq> ru-ḫ[e-e]?

12The readings at the head of the line are suggested by the duplicate K.21100 (P419417). At the other end of the line, the scribe ran out of room, leaving off DINGIR-ut-ka, which is attested at the end of the next line, after the last two signs comprising the verb are repeated using more typical orthography: tam-mar.

13The second part of the line after the two ILIMMU₄ signs (which are placed together as one sign), concludes the previous line. See note above.

14The scribe ran out of room, leaving off pa-nu-ka li-ir-tiš₂, which is attested at the end of the next line. The final KA seems to have been partly erased by the inscribing of the series of U₂ signs on the right edge. Perhaps the MA is there, too.

15The second part of the line after the two ILIMMU₄ signs (which are placed together as one sign), concludes the previous line. See note above. The (formulaic) restoration at the head of the line follows Mayer 1990: 463.

16The line is part of the ornamentation of the cylinder. The series of RU signs is inscribed on this line to designate the end of the main text.

17The last three lines on the cylinder are a colophon. The scribe made a false start at the beginning of the AMAR sign. See Mayer's copy (1990: 481).

18Mayer suggests reading [ḫa-mi-i]m?!, "[the one who gath]ers," at the head of the line (1990: 460).