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9. 1/3(diß) ma.na 5(diß) gin 2
in.da.an.tuku
He still was owed 1/3 mana 5 gin
10. dab 5.bi.ße 3 œen.na.ni When he came in order to seize it,
11. e 2.œa 2 a 2 bi 2.in.dar He illegally seized my house,
12. kißib 3 ßu.ga 2 ba.an.de 6
(37) NG 214 (AO 6047), i 10 – ii 2
i
He took away the seal in my hand,
10. ßu. d nin.mug.ga ugula (As for) Shuninmuga, the overseer,
11. u 3 a.PU 3.ÍA.a.a ßar 2.ra.ab.du and Apuzraya, the sharabdu,
12. a.ßa 3 dam a.ne.a.ti.ka 1(bur 3) “Lugalmelam illegally seized
ii
GAN 2.am 3
1. lugal.me.lam 2.[e a 2] bi 2.in.dar the field of the wife of Ane’ati, measuring
62
1 bur,”
2. bi 2.in.eß they said.
These four examples are from legal texts from the Ur III period, but they do not exhibit
the most common distributional pattern found in the Old Babylonian materials, namely
the combination of ergative and locative-terminative (or, in the case of adversity
predicates, locative) postpositional phrases. Turning now to examples from the Old
Babylonian period, one of the clearest examples of a BNBV inal verb of adversity is
a 2-√œar, “to overcome.”