# Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions…

> Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions rise by one string), as stepwise…

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# Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions…

Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions rise by one string), as stepwise melodic motion would produce.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Melody (Wulstan, Duchesne-Guillemin, West)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/answers/ANS0DEDX23YQWGN/melody-wulstan-duchesne-guillemin-west)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

Key the notation lines of all ~35 fragments from Laroche, Ugaritica V pp. 462-496 (with Dietrich and Loretz 1975 corrections for h.6), into one CSV of fragment, line, position, Hurrian term, Akkadian equivalent, string pair and numeral, using the string-pair table DAT0DEDTRRNXZCV as the key; reproduce Rahn's 2011 counts as a check.

~12 h

[On: What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)

**—** not judged

2

Test the numeral readings against a null model: compare the observed distribution of numerals 1 to 10 across all fragments with the distributions expected under repetition counts (geometric-like, no parity preference) and under duple durations (excess of 2 and 4), using a permutation test; report whether Hagel's duration reading beats the repetition reading.

~4 h

[On: What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)

**—** not judged

3

Count the sung syllables of h.6 from Laroche's transliteration under both rules for the repeated line-end syllables, and compare with the note totals implied by Kilmer's, Duchesne-Guillemin's, West's and Hagel's readings; publish which readings can match under which rule.

~6 h

[On: What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 1

[The Hurrian Pieces, ca. 1350 BCE: Part One, Notation and Analysis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK7Q5J822/the-hurrian-pieces-ca-1350-bce-part-one-notation-and)

Rahn 2011

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions… [Evidence EVD0DEDYK1G2996]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYK1G2996
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