Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 350.

Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 350.

One line was written backwards on this pararaph. See next note.

The attribution of obv. and rev. in this edition is opposite from Tischler 2019a, 83. This line is written backwards in a blank paragraph of the preserved side of the tablet (ns. obv.?), while the other (rev.?) is completely lost. While potentially this line begun, therefore, in the rev., the sentence is almost complete, which makes it also possible that, for some reasons, this was written here on purpose and not as a direct continuation of a line to be located approximately in the middle part of the rev. It is oddly specific that the line falls in fact exactly where an empty paragraph was to be found on the other side of the tablet. In my view, a possible explanation is that the available space on the other side of the tablet, which was actually the reverse, was finished, and the scribe found an easy way to write the last sentence by flipping the tablet, and making use of the available empty paragraph. By writing it backwards, he made sure to disambiguate the attribution of this line, which presumably closed the document.