UET 5, 85

6: "Fox", with CAD I/J, 85; CAD A/2, 91 (and not "turtle" - as suggested in AHw 1210, 1; von Weiher 1971, 34; CAD Š/2, 271 1a), see commentary to l. 7.

7: li-i-r[e-eq]: The plene-spelling suits better a derivation from warāqum, "to be(come) green or yellow", but līriq (kept by all commentators, including Veldhuis 1999, 37) does not yield good sense here: why would the speaker ask the disease to become green or yellow? Is the person sick of jaundice not yellow enough? A reading lirêq, from rêqum, "to withdraw, to go away, to depart", though not accounting for the plene-spelling li-i-r[e-eq], makes good sense here. CAD R does not list this text s.v. rêqum, but note Landsberger/Jacobsen's reading in their editio princeps li-i-ṣ[í-a] (repeated in CAD A/2, 91, and translated"slip out", but finally rejected in Landsberger1969, 139 n. 2). With the reading lirêq the question whether še-li-BI-im is a "fox" or a "turtle" seems to be solved: the speaker wishes, no doubt, that the disease will depart as (quick) as a fox, not as (slow) as a turtle.

8: i-na a!-wu-r[i-qá-nim]: So, contra CAD A/2, 91: i-na ṣa-ar-[ri-(im)].