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Mesopotamian commentaries represent the world’s oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts. Numbering nearly 900, the earliest date to the eighth century and the latest to ca. 100 BCE. The purpose of this website is to make the corpus available both to the scholarly community and a more general audience by providing background information on the genre, a searchable catalog, as well as photos, drawings, annotated editions, and translations of individual commentary tablets. For the first time the cuneiform commentaries, currently scattered over 21 museums around the globe, will be accessible on one platform.
The Cuneiform Commentaries Project is funded by Yale University (2013-2016) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Research Programs “Scholarly Editions and Translations,” 2015-2018).
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CCP 3.1.47 - Enūma Anu Enlil 47-49 ("49"-"51") Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
The tablet 82-5-2,572 preserves a commentary with a tabular format on several tablets from the meteorological section of Enūma Anu Enlil. According to the preserved rubrics (ll. |
CCP 3.1.42 - Enūma Anu Enlil 42 (?) Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
This small fragment preserves modest remains of the end of a commentary on a tablet from the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil. It is furnished with a rubric that classifies it as a mukallimtu 2a commentary. |
CCP 3.1.21 - Enūma Anu Enlil 21 Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
A fragment from the lower edge of a tablet written in Neo-Assyrian script. The preserved lines explain Enūma Anu Enlil § II, 3-5 by means of phonetic glosses and synonyms. |
CCP 3.1.5.B - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 (?) B Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
The tablet Rm 2, 302 is a fragment of a portrait-oriented tablet in Babylonian script, published as source m of EAE 5 (Tablet 5 of Enūma Anu Enlil), |
CCP 3.1.5.E - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 and 16 E © Yale Babylonian Collection
This well-preserved portrait-oriented tablet, now in the Yale Babylonian Collection, contains a previously unpublished cola-type commentary on Tablets 5 and 16 of the celestial omen manual, Enūma Anu Enlil. |
CCP 3.1.8.A.a - Enūma Anu Enlil 8 A A completely preserved cola-type commentary on Tablet 8 of Enūma Anu Enlil, one of six commentaries on this series found in Uruk, whose colophons indicate that they belonged to the well-known scholar, exorcist, owner of a brewer’s prebend, |
CCP 3.1.16 - Enūma Anu Enlil 16-19 Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
This long and well-preserved tablet contains a commentary on the series of astrological omens Enūma Anu Enlil. |
CCP 3.1.20.B.b - Enūma Anu Enlil 20 B © Vorderasiatisches Museum
This commentary is preserved on two identical tablets from Uruk, both of which contain a colophon that dates their production. |
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