Akkadian Addenda · Signs
tear
| Name | BU |
|---|---|
| Reads | [bu/pu] |
| Means | [bu]; to tear away in the lists |
| Taught in | 10 · The River decides |
Where it comes from
A long horizontal sign the lists connect with tearing away — graded unclear; the wedges are reticent. Akkadian reads it bu or pu, the b and p trading places as freely as they do on BI, and hands it the corpus’s most unprovable noun: kišpū, “sorcery.”
How to remember it
What cannot be proven must be torn out some other way: the pu of kišpū is why law 2 sends a man to the River at all. A long sign for a long walk to the water.
In the wild
urn:nabu:cdli:p464358:a:316 · license: attribution.
Akkadian reading taught in 103’s chapter 10.