Or ú-[er].
See KUB 18.12+, KUB 5.4+ (several instances).
Or: u[n?.
The expected sequence -WI-NI- is not clearly legible, possibly due to the fact that the text overwrites an erasure, or due to a mistake of the scribe. The sign WI is unusually long, and its final part might be understood as the missing 〈NI〉.
According to Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 406, this U sign should be emended as: nu!-〈kán〉. However, given the exceptional character of this passage, with a second set of observations within the same section, one wonders whether the sign is used as a Glossenkeil to mark the beginning of this 'special' section.
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