Robert K. Englund in CDLN 2007:002 published an Umma tablet from a private collection and treated the year name of the document as Amar-Suen 4. Since the year name of Šulgi 43 is easily confused with that of Amar-Suen 4, I believe that in fact, the year name in the text, mu en ^dnanna maš-e i₃-pa₃, “Year: ‘the en(-priestess) of Nanna was chosen through extispicy',” is not the year name of Amar-Suen 4, but of Šulgi 43. Although both year names are about the en-priestess of Nanna, the verbs are different: it is maš₂-e i₃-pa₃ in Š 43, but ba-hun in AS 4: mu en-mah-gal-an-na en-^dnanna ba-hun.

The year name of Šulgi 43 is as follows:

• The special long form: mu en-ubur-zi-an-na en ^dnanna maš/maš₂-e i₃-pa₃, “Year: En-ubur-zi-anna, the en(-priestess) of Nanna, was chosen through extispicy' “ (RlA 2, 137, 62).
• The general short form: mu en ^dnanna maš/maš₂-e i₃-pa₃, “Year: the en(-priestess) of Nanna was chosen through extispicy' ”.

The year name of Amar-Suen 4 is as follows:

• The general long form: mu en-mah-gal-an-na en ^dnanna ba-hun-ga₂, “Year: ‘En-mah-gal-anna, the en(-priestess) of Nanna, was installed' ” (AnOr 13, 24 4b, and see MS 1915 obv. 4 [J. Dahl forthcoming]).
• The general short form: en ^dnanna ba-hun, “Year: ‘the en(-priestess) of Nanna was installed' ”.
• The special or mistaken forms:
  mu en ^dnanna ^damar-^dsuen-ra ki-ag₂-an-na maš₂-e i₃-pa₃ (?), “Year: ‘the en(-priestess) of Nanna who loves Amar-Suen in heaven was chosen through extispicy'.” The ghost AS YN 4d = false AS 9, since the verb is always ba-hun, and i₃-pa₃ is not found in any form of YN of AS 9. Compare AS 8: mu en-nun-e ki-ag₂ ^damar-^dsuen- en eridu^ki ba-hun.
  mu en-mah-gal-an-na en ^dnanna maš₂-e i₃-pa₃, “Year: ‘En-mah-gal-anna, the en(-priestess) of Nanna, was chosen through extispicy' ” (only in two texts of Girsu: SAT 1, 247 and SNAT 159).

@article{Wu2010Differentiating,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-10-03]},
	address = {Oxford; Berlin; Los Angeles},
	author = {Wu, Yuhong},
	journal = {Cuneiform Digital Library Notes},
	issn = {1546-6566},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative},
	title = {Differentiating {\v {S}}ulgi 43 and {Amar}-{Suen} 4},
	url = {https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdln/2010-1},
	volume = {2010},
}

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