Cuneiform Commentaries Project

CCP 6.7.A - Weidner’s God List A

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:44 +0000

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

Neither rubric nor colophon are preserved on this cola-type commentary from the British Museum’s Sippar Collection. The fragment is rather thick.

CCP 3.5.22.A.b - Ālu 22-23 A

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:10 +0000

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

This commentary is preserved in two virtually identical manuscripts from two different cities. The first one, SpTU 5 259 (CCP 3.5.22.A.a), was found during the German excavations at Uruk.

CCP 3.6.3.A - Izbu 7 A

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:19 +0000

This almost perfectly preserved tablet contains a thirty-four line commentary on the 7th tablet of the teratological series Šumma Izbu.

CCP 6.1.13.B.b - Aa II/5 (pirsu 13) B

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:44 +0000

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

The present text, a small fragment in the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” but possibly originating from Babylon, contains short comments on entries from Aa II/3, II/4 and II/5.

CCP 6.2.5 - Diri 5 (?)

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:44 +0000

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This small fragment, which probably originates from Babylon, appears to contain entries of the fifth tablet of the supplemental syllabary Diri.

CCP 3.1.5.D - Enūma Anu Enlil 5, 17-23(24) D

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:16:54 +0000

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What remains of this multi-columned commentary (one large fragment joined to two smaller ones

CCP 4.3.u4 - Sagig 14 (?)

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:19:16 +0000

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This small fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on a medical text.

CCP 3.5.30 - Ālu 30-32 (“27-30”)

Enrique Jiménez — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:17:31 +0000

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

This almost entirely preserved tablet written in Babylonian script was the first tablet accessioned in the Kuyunjik collection (K.1). It contains a commentary on four chapters of the series of terrestrial omens Šumma Ālu.

CCP 3.5.49 - Ālu 49

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:18:10 +0000

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

This tablet preserves one of the latest datable commentaries. According to its colophon, the tablet was copied by Nabû-šumu-līšir son of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, grandson of Marduk-zēru-ibni, of the Egibatila family.

CCP 2.1.D - Maqlû 1-3, Šurpu 3 D

Enrique Jiménez — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:16:41 +0000

The tablet Ass. 13955dq (VAT 8928), copied as KAR 94, comments on Maqlû I-III (lines 1’-45’) and Šurpu III (lines 46’-61’).