CCP 3.5.u2.a - Ālu Bird Omens

Catalogue information
National Museum of Iraq
IM 77026
W 22659
Uruk›Uruk, Ue XVIII/1, Schicht II, Wohnhaus nördlich neben Schicht I
CDLI: 
P348703
Publication
Copy: 
SpTU 3 99
Editions: 

Besnier, 2009 (GKAB)

von Weiher, 1988E. von Weiher, Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk. Teil III. Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1988.: 186-188 no. 99

Commentary
Divination›Terrestrial omens (Šumma Ālu)

ṣâtu 6a

Base text: 
Ālu Bird Omens
Duplicates
P348498
Tablet information
Babylonian
Complete tablet
Columns: 
1
Lines: 
obv 26, rev 24
Size: 
8,8 × 5,9 cm
Achaemenid (5th cent - 331 BCE) (Uruk, Anu-ikṣur / Nippur / Babylon)
Colophon
Anu-ikṣur s. Šamaš-iddin d. Šangû-Ninurta [junior āšipu]
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[Colophon]: 235

von Weiher, 1988E. von Weiher, Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk. Teil III. Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1988.
[Edition]: 186-188 no. 99

Record
Besnier, 01/2009 (ATF Transliteration)
Besnier, 01/2009 (Lemmatization)
Fadhil & van Ess, 10/2017 (Museum number)
By Eckart Frahm & Mary Frazer & Enrique Jiménez | Make a correction or suggestion
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Frahm, E. & Frazer, M. & Jiménez, E., 2013, “Commentary on Ālu Bird Omens (CCP 3.5.u2.a),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 24, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P348703. DOI: 10079/wm37q7m
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