CCP 3.1.u72 - Enūma Anu Enlil, Izbu, Ālu 54 and 59

Catalogue information
British Museum
K.4387
Nineveh›Nineveh (Kuyunjik)
CDLI: 
P395521
Publication
Copy: 
2R 47
Commentary
Divination›Astrological. Enūma Anu Enlil

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Base text: 
Enūma Anu Enlil, Izbu, Ālu 54 and 59
Tablet information
Assyrian
Fragment
Columns: 
3
Lines: 
i 35, ii 45, iii 40, iv 22, v 21, vi 3
Size: 
12,38 × 10,16 × 2,54 cm
Late 8th / Early 7th cent (mostly Kalḫu, Nabû-zuqup-kēnu)
Colophon
Nabû-zuqup-kēnu s. Marduk-šuma-iqīš d. Gabbi-ilāni-ēreš
Bibliography

Borger, 1967R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. Band I. Repertorium der sumerischen und akkadischen Texte. de Gruyter, 1967.
[t47) K 4387. Kommentar. // Schroeder KAV n178. Cf Caplice Festschrift Oppenheim 65 (26 ab); Jacobsen AS 6 10 (16-17 cd); Landsberger Fauna 126 (39-41 cd); Meissner BAW Il 33 (13 ab); Ungnad ZA 31 253ff. (22-24 ab). Zum Teil astrologisch.]: 368

Borger, 1975R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. Band II. Supplement zu Band I. de Gruyter, 1975.
[t47) Cf Weidner AfO 21 46.]: 206

Chambon, 2012G. Chambon, “Le panier huppum comme mesure de capacité (de 30 qa ?) dans les textes paléobabyloniens de Harrâdum”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2012/14, 2012.
[On line 50: gi.gur = pa-nu = qu-pu, "basket"]

Fincke, 2016bJ. C. Fincke, “ākilu, a pest, lit. “eater, devourer”, in omen apodoses and other texts”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2016/102, 2016.
[On line ii 40: ākilu]

Frahm, 1999aE. Frahm, “Nabû-zuqup-kenu, das Gilgames-Epos und der Tod Sargons II.”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 51, pp. 73-90, 1999.: 78 fn. 24

Frahm, 2003E. Frahm, “New Sources for Sennacherib's First Campaign”, Isimu, vol. 6, pp. 129-164, 2003.
[When Nabû-zuqup-kēna composed a royal inscription of Sennacherib, he drew on lexical entries from this tablet]: 129-164

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 4, 32, 202, 207, 257, 266, 278

Freedman, 1998S. M. Freedman, If a City is set on a Height. The Akkadian omen series šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin. Volume 1: Tablets 1-21. The University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1998.
[Comm. to Ālu 54]: 10b

Leichty, 1970E. Leichty, The Omen Series Šumma Izbu. Augustin, 1970.
[On line 50: gi.gur = pa-nu = qu-pu, "basket"]: 60 ad 65

May, 2018N. M. May, “The Scholar and Politics: Nabû-zuqup-kēnu, his Colophons and the Ideology of Sargon II”, in Proceedings of the International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (1915–1999), The State Hermitage Publishers, 2018, pp. 110-164.
[Nabû-zuqup-kēnu]: 121

Moren[-Freedman], 1978S. M. Moren[-Freedman], The omen series šumma ālu. PhD thesis, 1978.
[Comm. to Ālu 54 (?)]: 27-28

Reiner, 1998aE. Reiner, “Celestial Omen Tablets and Fragments in the British Museum”, in tikip santakki mala bašmu.. Festschrift für Rykle Borger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 24. Mai 1994, S. M. Maul, Ed. Styx, 1998, pp. 215-302.
[comm. on ext.?]: 281

Rochberg, 1988F. Rochberg, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enūma Anu Enlil. Berger & Söhne, 1988.: 79

Weidner, 1966aE. F. Weidner, “Ein Kommentar zu den Schlangen-Omina”, Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 21, p. 46 and pl. ix-x, 1966.
[Identification, discussion, reading proposals]: 46a

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Freedman, 03/2016 (Identification [iv 16-18])
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Frahm, E. & Frazer, M. & Jiménez, E., 2016, “Commentary on Enūma Anu Enlil, Izbu, Ālu 54 and 59 (CCP 3.1.u72),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 25, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P395521. DOI: 10079/cz8w9vd
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