¹ Analyse una-n; the final -n, I believe, resumes the n-case of the noun. This is regularly done wherever the verbal form begins the sentence. Here, unan appears, for reasons as yet unknown, in the interior of the sentence.

² For the spelling with only one l see Friedrich, Kleine Beiträge 17f., 27.

³ Bork (p. 91) and Friedrich, Kleine Beiträge p. 27, translate I 115 ‘(ich) habe sie zu meinem Bruder gesandt (geschickt)‘. Friedrich expresses his surprise at the form and refers to Messerschmidt's remark in Mitanni-Studien 48. Messerschmidt who has done such splendid work seems to consider already the existence of an intransitive verb of special form.

⁴ For -lla as a plural suffix cf. Friedrich, Kl. Beitr. 31; according to p. 27 it is equivalent to ‘eos’.

⁵ Opposite Akk. kalū ‘detain’ (cf. e.g. EA 19 72), Ḫur. kuz- (cf. IV 40 and Messerschmidt p. 87). Both verbs mean also ‘release an order, ordain’.

⁶ Note the change of subject which in an analogous way recurs in Ḫurrian.

⁷ In ati I prefer to see some particle for the introduction of sentences.

⁸ I am unable to find in -an the conjunction ‘and’. The point needs a more thorough discussion, which will be given elsewhere.

⁹ This is merely guessed from the context.

¹⁰ This is based upon Messerschmidt's proposal (Mit.-Stud. 62) to consider tiḫan- as the rough equivalent of Akk. šūbulu ‘cause to bring’. The derivation with a šḫ-suffix may well create a noun analogous to Akk. šūbultu ‘shipment, present’. The suffix -šḫ- is well known in Ḫurrian, as a look at Gordon's list of Ḫurrian words in the Nuzu texts (Orient. 7 52) and still better at Lacheman's contributions to Starr's Nuzi I (528ff.) will show. Among the words with -šḫ which occur in Hittite texts (Kleinasiatische Forsch. 179) a large percentage may be of Ḫurrian origin.

¹¹ For III 11 see below p. 219; the text continues in-na-a-ma-a-ni-i-in ú-ú-e-it-ta. It is tempting, particularly in view of III 21 (see presently in the text), to restore by conjecture ú-ú<-ni>-e-it-ta ‘she will come’.

¹² I do not see how the interpretation of undu as a conjunction ‘when, whereas’ can be avoided, since the word recurs in the Akkadian of the EA letters, of Boğazköy and of Nuzu. It was thus interpreted by Jensen (ZA 14 174, 177), but the misgivings of Messerschmidt (Mit.-Stud. 54) have not failed to impress others.

¹³ If undu is a conjunction, inna- can only be a particle.

¹⁴ For the continuation see below p. 220 f.

¹⁵ Thus according to Messerschmidt, Mit.-Stud. 112f.

¹⁶ The word appears in close connection with tiwena ‘words, matters’ : a-i-la-an ti-we-e-na an-ni ta-la-me-na ... (II 75); cf. furthermore IV 3, 7. In IV 15 we compare the idiom talamo, tan- with tiwi tan- ‘fulfil a promise’ (Messerschmidt, Mit.-Stud. 38) which precedes in IV 6 7. The word has nothing to do with RSh Qurrian te-la-ma-e ‘great’ (Syria 12 324ff. II 18) with which it has been combined by Lewy (Revue des Et. Sém. 1938 68 fn. 8 and 62 fn. 3). The Mitanni word for ‘great’ may be contained in ta-al-la DINGIR.MEŠ e-e-ni-iw-wa-al-la-a-an (IV 64), if this means ‘my great gods’ (talla from tali/a-na like ulla from uli-na, see Friedrich, Kl. Beitr. 6).

¹⁷ Rev. 9 ú-x-i-šal-la(!) perhaps ú-un-na-i-šal-la which would recall ittaišallan (see presently). Rev. 10 apparently ú-nu-sa.

¹⁸ Cf. Gustavs, Namenreihen aus den Kerkuk-Tafeln 43f.

¹⁹ Mit.-Stud. 59.

²⁰ Mitannisprache 124 and passim.

²¹ Cf. the Suggestion of Lewy's in Revue des Ét. Sém. 68 fn. 8.

²² The translation of ittaišalla and ittainna as imperative plural and singular respectively may be admitted here. The reasons for it will be presented in another connection.

²³ The initial vowel of the suffix is subject to vowel harmony; see Heinr. Winckler apud Bork, Mitannisprache 53.

²⁴ Is this the reason for its being composed in Tušratta's native tongue?

²⁵ One may consider whether this is the force of the št-form of the verb.

²⁶ Cf. Lang. 15.252–3.

²⁷ Cf. Messerschmidt, Mit.-Stud. 36.

²⁸ The sentence presents various difficulties: (1) the verbal form in -iten; I interpret it as -et-a-in, i.e. it-ti-tén as the ‘future’ of ittain; (2) the noun uši-. Bork's rendering ‘Karawane’ (AfO 8 309) is unacceptable to me; I must call attention to ú-u-ši-ip KUB X 63 II 10 which is in parallelism to ki-il-ta-ap ‘thy well-being’ and I furthermore refer to ana ḫidūti ‘for joy’ in EA 29 157 and 27 97.

²⁹ In other words, Tušratta expects an advantageous return from his generosity.

³⁰ Cf. Ungnad, ZA NF 1133ff. and in particular 137.

³¹ E.g. JEN 78 35; 290 47; AASOR XVI 61 43; in all cases mentioned as father of the scribe TAR-mi-te-šup. The name is hardly Akkadian; for the element šarri see Goetze, Annalen des Muršilis 226ff.

³² A few additional forms in -a will be dealt with elsewhere.

³³ Friedrich, Caucasica fasc. 7 54ff.