CCP 3.6.1.A.b - Izbu (gurru maḫīru) A

Catalogue information
British Museum
BM 35553
Sp 3,59(+) 80-11-12,472
Babylon(Babylon or Borsippa)
joins: 
BM 35553 (+)? BM 38588
CDLI: 
P461133
Publication
Copy: 
CT 41 35-38 [BM 38588]
Editions: 

Labat, 1933R. Labat, Commentaires assyro-babyloniens sur les présages. Imprimerie-Librairie de l’Université, 1933.: 80-91 no. 9

Leichty, 1970E. Leichty, The Omen Series Šumma Izbu. Augustin, 1970.: 211-229

Commentary
DivinationTeratological omensPrincipal Commentary

ṣâtu 3b

Base text: 
Izbu (gurru maḫīru)
Commentary no: 
A
Duplicates
Tablet information
Babylonian
Fragment (large)
Columns: 
2
Lines: 
i 45, ii 32, iii 37, iv 42 (BM 38588)
Size: 
5,59(+)9,6 × 3,96(+)7,7 cm
Neo/Late Babylonian, specifics unknown
Colophon
Marduk-bēlšunu bārû
Bibliography

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 204-05, 309, 315

Gabbay, 2016U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries. Brill, 2016.
[On line i–ii 35]
: 109

Genty, 2010aT. Genty, Les commentaires dans les textes cunéiformes assyro-babyloniens. MA thesis, 2010.
[Catalogue]
: 445-446

Labat, 1933R. Labat, Commentaires assyro-babyloniens sur les présages. Imprimerie-Librairie de l’Université, 1933.
[Edition]
: 80-91 no. 9

Leichty, 1970E. Leichty, The Omen Series Šumma Izbu. Augustin, 1970.
[Edition]
: 211-229

Wee, 2017J. Wee, Pan-astronomical Hermeneutics and the Arts of the Lamentation Priest, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, vol. 107, pp. 236-260, 2017.
[Colophon]
: 257 fn. 143

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How to cite
Frahm, E. & Frazer, M. & Jiménez, E., 2013, “Commentary on Izbu (gurru maḫīru) (CCP 3.6.1.A.b),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed March 28, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P461133. DOI: 10079/0cfxq1q
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