This fragment contains remains of what appears to be a commentary on the 6th tablet of the series of terrestrial omens Šumma Ālu (see below the commentary on lines r 6′-7′). The fragment probably belongs to the same tablet as BM 48344 (81-11-3,1054 = CCP 3.5.6).1 Both fragments contain several archaizing forms of certain signs, such as IB in BM 48575 (the present tablet) and RU in BM 48344.

Lines o 6′-8′ of this tablet comment on the rare word ribqu, a hapax legomenon.2 Interestingly, the lines explaining this word (o 7′-8′) quote a bilingual line from the eršemma Uru ašera.

• 1. Note, however, that Uri Gabbay suggests that, since several of the entries in the commentary appear together in the same section of Aa (see in particular the notes on lines r 3′ and 4′ below), the present fragment might represent a commentary on Aa.
• 2. The rare verb rabāqu is only attested in two Old Babylonian letters, where it is used to designate an action involving cattle (see CAD R 9-10). As suggested by Uri Gabbay (private communication), the ribqu should be probably taken as a place where animals are kept. Gabbay further observes that lexical equations of Sumerian rig₇ with ribku and rabāku, booked in dictionaries s.v. ribqu, “decoction” (CAD R 321) and rabāku, “to decoct” (CAD R 8), respectively, should rather be assigned to this lemma, since in the eršemma quoted the Akkadian word ribqu corresponds to the Sumerian rig₇.