This fragment of a four-column tablet belongs to a commentary on physiognomic omens. Whereas the exact identity of its base text remains uncertain, many of its entries are paralleled in the physiognomic corpus. The present tablet comes from Ashurbanipal’s libraries, which have also yielded many other closely related commentaries: the most important of them is the large commentary CCP 3.7.2.F.a and duplicates, several of which entries appear verbatim here.

As other physiognomic commentaries from Ashurbanipal’s libraries, this tablet uses the indentation format: the entries from the base text appear at the beginning of the line, and all subsequent explanations are indented. The entries from the main text are introduced by diš-signs, which are written over the vertical ruling. The explanations usually render explicitly what in the base text is ambiguous: thus, the physiognomic description of a man as having “turtle feet” is explained “the toes of his feet are are fl[at, they are stunted and have no phalanges”] (ii 3′-5′).

The fragment concludes with a badly damaged rubric that may have classified the fragment as a mukallimtu-commentary. It is further furnished with an Ashurbanipal Typ a colophon.