PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The signs ZI É are ambiguous. As line VAT 9906 iii 16 is broken, it is unclear whether the signs are to be read as logograms or as a syllabic spelling, for example ṣi-bit-[tu₄] ‘prisoner’. Further even if read as logograms as above, ZI has can be interpreted as a multitude of verbs (see the commentary at 32.N.49’ and 32.A.38) and attestations of the combination ZI É are otherwise unknown.