Akkadian Addenda · Signs

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approach

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Reads[te]
Meansto approach in the lists
Taught in14 · Where you stand

Where it comes from

The lists connect this sign with approaching — graded unclear, like most of the oldest identifications. Its course career is a small drama: it stood one box wide in the ordeal’s acquittal for four chapters before the course handed it over.

How to remember it

The sign that kept you waiting: it approached for four chapters and arrived last. It completes ūtebbibaššuma — “the River has cleared him” — the best news in law 2.

In the wild

Codex Hammurapi (composite text), law 2. urn:nabu:cdli:p464358:a:326 · license: attribution.

Akkadian reading taught in 103’s chapter 14.