CCP 3.5.u5 - Ālu (only obv), Prodigy book type omens

Catalogue information
Vorderasiatisches Museum
VAT 10097
Aššur
CDLI: 
P369148
Publication
Copy: 
KAR 180
Commentary
DivinationTerrestrial omens (Šumma Ālu)

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Base text: 
Ālu (only obv), Prodigy book type omens
Tablet information
Assyrian
Fragment
Columns: 
1
Lines: 
obv 18, rev 18
7th cent (Assurbanipal libraries and other Assyrian cities)
Colophon
Nabû-taqbi-līšer šamallû ṣeḫru [s.] Nabû-kittāni-īde maḫḫû(or: ṭupšarru) of Aššur d. [...] ṭupšarru
Bibliography

CAD K 1b, 346a[Alu Comm.]

CAD N/2 141a[(list of prodigies with comm.)]

CAD Q 166b[(comm. to prodigies)]

Baker, 2000H. D. Baker, The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Volume 2 H-N. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2000.
[Nabû-kittāni-īde]
: 841b

Baker, 2000H. D. Baker, The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Volume 2 H-N. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2000.
[Nabû-taqbi-līšer]
: 894-895

Borger, 1967R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. Band I. Repertorium der sumerischen und akkadischen Texte. de Gruyter, 1967.
[180) Omina mit Kommentar? Cf Weidner AfO 14 341.]
: 100

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 35, 118, 194, 202, 207, 215, 271, 277

Heeßel, 2007N. P. Heeßel, Divinatorische Texte I. Terrestrische, teratologische, physiognomische und oneiromantische Omina. Harrassowitz, 2007.
[Ein weiterer Kommetar, der unter anderem auch terrestrische Omina erklärt, ist VAT 10097 (KAR 180). Dieser Text zeigt große Ähnlichkeiten zum Prodigienbuch, das zuletzt von A.K. Guinan, AMD ll, 7-40 bearbeitet wurde.]
: 5 fn. 45

Hunger, 1968H. Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone. Neukirchener Verlag, 1968.
[Colophon]
: 81 no. 239

Sallaberger, 2000W. Sallaberger, Das Erscheinen Marduks als Vorzeichen: Kulstatue und Neujahrfest in der Omenserie Šumma ālu, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, vol. 90, pp. 227-262, 2000.
[It is not a commentary on procession omens from Šumma ālu]
: 252

van der Toorn, 1991K. van der Toorn, The Babylonian New Year Festival New insights from the Cuneiform texts and their bearing on Old Testament Study, in Congress Volume. Leuven 1989, Brill, 1991, pp. 331-344.
[It is a commentary on procession omens from Šumma ālu]
: 334 fn. 16

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Frahm, E. & Frazer, M. & Jiménez, E., 2013, “Commentary on Ālu (only obv), Prodigy book type omens (CCP 3.5.u5),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed March 28, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P369148. DOI: 10079/cjsxm5g
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