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OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) zennum u ge-en-nu-um JCS 48, 51 r. i 4. pass. The term always co-occurs with zennu and both are repeated multiple times in the music instruction texts. Kilmer/Tinney (ib.) propose a tentative translation “tune and test” and derive the word from Sum. ge-en (see OB Proto-Lu 622–627 and cf. Kilmer 1995, 447 § 5.2). ^new