The Aramaic style in which the text is composed is of a literary standard nature and follows a conventional transliteration system of the Aramaic phonemes in cuneiform syllable signs (e.g. <*ḍ> > > Late Aramaic <’>).Émile Puech, "Sur la dissimilation de l’interdentale ḍ en araméen qumrânien; à propos d’un chaînon manquant," Revue de Qumrân 19, 2000, pp. 607–616.Christa Müller-Kessler, "Aramäisches equ „Holz“ im keilschriftlichen Brief aus Tyros und eq in der aramäisch-keilschriftlichen Uruk-Beschwörung," in Ludĕk Vacín (ed.), u4 du11-ga-ni sá mu-ni-ib-du11. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Blahoslav Hruška (Dresden: ISLET-Verlag, 2011), pp. 155–158. The text is of importance for the linguistic setting as it is the only Aramaic text example of this period and geographical area (Mesopotamia) so far,Stephen A. Kaufman, The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (Assyriological Studies 19; Chicago, 1974), pp. 11–12. which shows already the masculine plural ending of the determinative -ē on nouns as in Eastern Aramaic, but lacks certain morphemes as demonstrative pronouns, or the imperfect.Stephen A. Kaufman, The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (Assyriological Studies 19; Chicago, 1974), pp. 125.
