We owe a large debt of gratitude to Paul Delnero (Johns Hopkins University) for sharing with us his working file with editions of all the Old Babylonian Emesal laments known to him in 2019. This file contains the data on which his book How to Do Things with Tears [https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512650] (SANER 26; De Gruyter 2020) is based.