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Syntactic marginalia in Old Babylonian.
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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October 1, 2006
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This review article consists of two parts: the first briefly refers to the edition itself, while the second and more substantial part points out various important syntactic issues which arise from a close examination of the letters therein. These issues are discussed and expanded upon, based on additional information gathered from other Old Babylonian (henceforth OB) letters.
1. GENERAL REMARKS
This letter volume contains, by and large, two groups of letters: TCL 1, letters 1-54, a new edition of the texts previously edited by A. Ungnad (VAB 6) in 1914; and TCL 17-18, prepared by E. Ebeling (MAOG 15) in 1942. Since both TCL 1 and 17-18 are often quoted in the ...