(0) By the word of Bēl and Bēltīya, may it be perfect.

(1) “(If) pigs persistently rage” (= Šumma Ālu 49 1) (refers to pigs) that go w[il]d, (since) “raging” means “wil[d” (...)]

(2) “To prowl” (= Šumma Ālu 49 2) means “to circle.” “If pigs persistently squeal in the city square — rise of [a storm] or uprising of spade and hod (laborers)” (= Šumma Ālu 49 4) (the relationship between protasis and apodosis is demonstrated by the expression) “to lie down like a pig,” (which appears in the line) “You, (O Stone,) while (they) work on you, lie like a pig!” (quotation from Lugale 484).

(4) “Their tails are turned back” (= Šumma Ālu 49 5) (refers to tails) that are turned back upward, (since) “to turn back” means “to raise.” “Will approach the man” (= Šumma Ālu 49 15-16), “to approach” means “to go”; alternatively, “to approach” means “to draw near.”

(5) “(Pigs) are rolling” (= Šumma Ālu 49 17), “to roll” means “to fe[ar].”

(6) “(The pigs) are sharpening their weapons” (cf. Šumma Ālu 49 13) (refers to pigs) that grind their teeth, (since) KA.DÙ, pronounced /guk/, means “weapon,” “to seal,” and “tooth” (= citation from Diri Ug I 69-71 (?)), (since) ZÚ, pronounced /zu/, means “tooth,” and DÙ, pronounced /du/, means “to seal” (and) alternatively “to kiss.” ZÚ.SA.SA means “šelû, said of a marsh boar,” (in the word ZÚ.SA.SA), ZÚ means “tooth of a marsh boar” and SA means “to sharpen, said of weapons.”

(8) “There will be an uprising of a city, uprising of fish and birds in the land” (cf. Šumma Ālu 49 43′) means “the people will rise up together, it is favorable.”

(9) GI.GÌR (cf. Šumma Ālu 49 53′-55′), (GÌR) read /gir/, means “fertile,” (it refers to) the “reed-plant”; GI.Ú.GÌR means adattu, i.e., the base of the reed.

(10) GI.TUR (= Šumma Ālu 49 unknown) means zīru-reed, i.e., “reed plant”; alternatively, GI.TUR means zirzirru-reed. [(...)]

(11) GI.GILIM (= Šumma Ālu 49 47′ and 52′-55′) means “reed bundle,” (i.e.,) a bundle of reeds. Ú.A.GUG₄ (= Šumma Ālu 49 50′) means “alfalfa-grass,” (i.e.,) “alfa gr[ass” ...] ... (means) “alfalfa-grass.”

(12) “If a pig carries a palm frond, wind will rise” (= Šumma Ālu 49 48′) (the relationship between protasis and apodosis is demonstrated by the line) “May the date palm receive it, (the tree) that receives every wind!” (quotation from Maqlû I 22).

(13) “(A pig) is covered (laḫim) with hair” (= Šumma Ālu 49 24) – MU₄.MU₄, (pronounced) /mu-mu/, means “to be clothed” (labāšu), MU₄.MU₄, pronounced /mu-mu/, means “to be covered” (laḫāmu), (it refers to) unkempt hair [(...)].

(14) LUGAL ŠÚ (= Šumma Ālu 49 24) means “king of the universe” (LUGAL ŠÚ), (alternatively, it means) “foreign king,” (since) ŠÚ means “universe” and ŠÚ means “foreigner.” “Cities will be laid waste” (= Šumma Ālu 49 24) means ... [...].

(15) “A support he did not know of will approach his owner” (= Šumma Ālu 49 28′) is as in “he will intercede for brothers that are not his” (= quotation from Iqqur īpuš §31 Elūlu). KI.ÙR (= Šumma Ālu 49 unknown) means “to pillage,” (since) KI means “place” and ÙR means “to pass by, in the sense ‘to cross’.”

(16) “If a pig repeatedly opens its mouth in front of a man, the man’s wife will repeatedly have (illicit) sex” (= Šumma Ālu 49 34′) (the relationship between protasis and apodosis is demonstrated by the fact that) MÚRUB means “mouth,” MÚRUB means “anus,” and MÚRUB means “female genitalia.”

(18) “(A pig) advances (iʾir)” (= Šumma Ālu 49 35′) stems from “to advance,” which means “to go,“ i.e., “he approaches,” (since) “to appr[oach” means “to go”].

(19) “(A pig) leaves towards his owner” (cp. Šumma Ālu 49 38′), “leaves” means “goes,” (as in) “he was afraid and left and disappeared (lit. “went up to his mountain”)” (= quotation from Anzû?). ...

(20) “He hit” (= Šumma Ālu 49 38′) means “he struck,” alternatively, “he struck” means “he flattened,” (since) ÙR means “to strike” and ÙR means “to flatten.”

(21) “A captive woman will enter the house of his master” (= Šumma Ālu 49 41′), “center” (from the protasis, written qé-reb [i.e., KI.KAL]), means “center,” (and hence) “captive” (lit., “enclosed”); KI.KAL means “hardship.”

(22) “It calmly performs the function of the herald (namgirūtu)” (= Šumma Ālu 49 42′) (refers to the pig) that sings calmly; alternatively, namgirūtu means nagirūtu (i.e., “function of the herald”). “A sick person [will die] in ad[versity]” (= Šumma Ālu 49 42′), TE means “to calm down,” TE means “to cool down.”

(24) “It smears” (= Šumma Ālu 49 64′) (stems from) “to smear,” (which) means “to flatten.” “That man, the en[emy will enter] the city” (= Šumma Ālu 49 unknown, cf. 57′) means “a foreigner will enter his house” – “foreigner” means “enemy.” Alternatively, it means “he will turn into a stranger in his (own) city” [(...)].

(26) “[If a pi]g that is not his own goes on the rampage and enters a man’s house” (= Šumma Ālu 49 68′), “on the rampage” means “raging.” “(A pig) tears a man to pieces” (= Šumma Ālu 49 72′), “to tear to pieces” means “to shred.”

(27) In “turns the house upside down (ú-na-ap-NE)” (= Šumma Ālu 49 72′), (NE should be read as) /pil/. “(A pig) spills water” (= Šumma Ālu 49 75′) it refers to urine.

(28) “(If a pig) chews human excrement” (= Šumma Ālu 49 77′), “to chew” means “to eat.” “The man will have a slanderer” (= Šumma Ālu 49 77′) means he will see ...

(29) “(If a pig) terrifies a man” (= Šumma Ālu 49 78′) (is) as in “a combat.” “He will have a word of constraint” (= Šumma Ālu 49 80′) means he will have a [...] word.

(30) “If a pig enters a man’s house, stands up and ditto (scil., “vomits,” ipru), that house will acquire profit” (= Šumma Ālu 49 81′) ... means ...

(31) “Chaff” (= Šumma Ālu 49 82′) means “twig,” because the chaff of a plant is a twig. “Of what it is not his” (= Šumma Ālu 49 unknown) means “all he achieves.”

(32) “Smears with mud” (= Šumma Ālu 49 unknown) “smeared with mud” (refers to a pig) that is smeared daily, (new break) you smear. “Debi<lity>” (literally, luʾ-(break)) means “disease.”

(33) “If a sow carrying ḫiʾu enters a man’s house” (= Šumma Ālu 49 85′), (new break) either a saw or a pig; ḫiʾu means “reed fence (made of) adattu-reed,” (i.e.,) “ḫīlu of a reed,” (which) means (new break) “reed plant.”

(36) Lemmata and oral explanations from (If) pigs persistently rage” (= Šumma Ālu 49), from “If a City is Set on a Height.”

(37) Copied and collated from an old one-column tablet, whose original was from Borsippa.

(38) One-column tablet of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi son of Marduk-zēru-ibni descendant of Egibatila. Handwriting of Nabû-šumu-līšir, his son.