To all appearance a new section begins here, the scribe introducing in this place the four Akkadian words or groups for "mountain." The text then proceeds as follows--
KUR MAR-TU sad A-mur-ri-e Mountain of Amoria KI (the Amorite land). KUR TI-ID-NU-UM sad A-mur-ri-e Mountain of KI Amoria. KUR GIR-GIR sad A-mur-ri-e Mountain of KI Amoria. KUR SU-RU sad Su-bar-ti Mountain of KI Subarti. KUR NUM-MA sad Elamti Mountain of Elam. KI KUR Gu-ti-um sad Gu-ti-i Mountain of Gutû KI or Gutium. KURZAG Gu-ti-um sad pa-at Gu-ti-i Mountain of the KI border of Gutium. KUR si-rum sad Si-ri-i [?] Mountain of Sirû. KI KUR [GIS] ERI-NA sad E-ri-ni Mountain of Cedar. KI KUR MAR-HA-SI KI sad Pa-ra-si-i Mountain of Parasû. KUR Sir-rum sad Bi-ta-lal Mountain of KI Bitala. (Kastala is possible.) KUR Ê-AN-NA sad Bi-ta-lal Mountain of KI Bitala. KUR HE-A-NA sad Ha-ni-e Mountain of Hanû. KI KUR Lu-lu-bi sad Lu-lu-bi-e Mountain of KI Lulubû.
Here follows a list of adjectives combined with the word for country, forming descriptions such as "safe country," "low-lying country," etc.
In the above list of countries, the land of the Amorites holds the first place, and is repeated three times, there having, to all appearance, been three ways of writing its name in Akkadian. Why this was the case--whether in the older Akkadian literature the scribes distinguished three different districts or not, is not known, but is not at all improbable. The first of the three ways of designating the country is the usual one, and apparently means the land of the Amorites in general, the other two being less used, and possibly indicating the more mountainous parts. What the mountains of Suru or Subartu were is uncertain, but it may be supposed that, as this group is used in the late Babylonian inscriptions (as shown by the text containing the account of the downfall of Assyria) for the domain over which the kings of Assyria ruled, there is hardly any doubt that it stands for the Mesopotamian tract, extending from the boundaries of the Amorites to the frontiers of Babylonia. This would include not only Assyria, but also Aram-naharaim, or Syria, and is in all probability the original of this last word, which has given considerable trouble to students to explain.