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(39) AbB 4, 94: 12-14<br />

eqlam ... a˙˙® ab®ja imkusu¢-ma ≠ÍE±-am itbalu¢<br />

My uncles have gathered up (the taxes on) the field, so that they can take it for<br />

themselves.<br />

(40) AbB 4, 16: 8-11<br />

Í eqel b®t ab®ja ®kamanni-ma ana re¢dîm ittadin<br />

Í. has taken a field that belongs to the household of my father away from me, so that<br />

he can give it to a soldier.<br />

Akkadian iptaras forms, therefore, seem to function along the lines of injunctives<br />

elsewhere in Akkadian (as well as other relatively old Semitic languages). Injunction<br />

sequences expressing result or purpose, likewise, make use of the particle -ma, yielding<br />

sequences such as the following (after Huehnergard 2000, 147).<br />

(41) kaspam ßua¢ti piqdam-ma ekallam lu¢pul-ma b®t® la¢ i≈abbatu¢<br />

Provide me with the aforementioned silver, so that I can pay the palace, so that they<br />

do not seize my estate.<br />

As Huehnergard describes the phenomenon:<br />

In a sequence of two or more clauses in which the first verb is an injunctive form,<br />

i.e., an Imperative, a Precative, a Prohibitive, or a Vetitive, and the following verb or<br />

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