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Document Details : Title: What to Do if the Exemplar Used is Incomplete? Subtitle: A Scribal Note Suggesting an Unusual Approach Author(s): FINCKE, Jeanette C. , LENZI, Alan Journal: Orientalia Volume: 94 Issue: 1 Date: 2025 Pages: 163-172 DOI: 10.2143/ORI.94.1.3295539 Abstract : At the end of KAR 228, obv. 14 the scribe impressed four signs, DIŠ PAP AŠ KUR, that do not make sense with the rest of the line. The text of obv. 15, an indented line written in a small, shallow script, clearly completes the sense of obv. 14 (minus its final four signs). After a brief review of relevant scribal practices and a look at the broader context of the lines and signs in question in KAR 228, we argue that DIŠ PAP AŠ KUR at the end of obv. 14 is an unusual scribal annotation, a kind of note-to-self, related to the copying of an incomplete or faulty exemplar. The signs are to be transliterated ana KÚR ina KUR, normalized to ana nukkuri ina kašādi, and translated to something like 'to change when (it, i.e., the line’s textual conclusion) arrives/is found'. |
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