ABSTRACT
Single-letter sigla refer to tablets in Babylonian script, double-letter sigla to those in Assyrian script. Oelsner (1986: 495) confirms the join of the two fragments. He also states that, according to the excavation records, this tablet is from the sixth or fifth century bc. The fragment W 18003f edited in Gehlken (1996) No. 240a has the upper edge preserved and cannot be joined to AO 7540. In order to continue using the sigla from the earlier edition, it was necessary to introduce lower-case letters for most of the tablets identified since 1989. The choice of letters is therefore almost arbitrary. Most of the text was well established at the time of the earlier edition in 1989. This commentary occasionally corrects the earlier edition or mentions additional material. The vertical wedge at the beginning of a line, transliterated DIS and represented in the translation by the sign, was discussed in Watson and Horowitz.
