Catalogue information

British Museum

K.2089

Nineveh›Nineveh (Kuyunjik)

CDLI:

P394184

Publication

Copy:

Boissier Choix 118

CT 31 14

Commentary

Divination›Extispicy (Bārûtu)

Broken

Base text:

Bārûtu 8 Kakku

Commentary no:

Tablet information

Assyrian

Fragment

Columns:

2 (or >)

Lines:

i' 11

Size:

7,62 × 3,81 cm

7th cent (Assurbanipal libraries and other Assyrian cities)

Bibliography

Boissier, 1905A. Boissier, Choix des textes relatifs a la divination assyro-babylonienne, I. Kündig, 1905.: 118-119

Borger, 1967R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. Band I. Repertorium der sumerischen und akkadischen Texte. de Gruyter, 1967.
[14 K 2089) Auch Boissier Choix I 118f, Cf Meissner BAW I 61,]: 175

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.
[2nd nisḫu of the commentary series on Kakku]: 85, 169, 182

Gabbay, 2016U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries. Brill, 2016.
[On line ii 2′]: 41

Koch-Westenholz, 2000bU. Koch-Westenholz, Babylonian Liver Omens. The Chapters Manzāzu, Padānu and Pān Tākalti of the Babylonian Extispicy Series mainly from Aššurbanipal's Library. Museum Tusculanum, 2000.
[On line 2-6]: 508 fn. 1179

Nougayrol, 1945J. Nougayrol, “Textes hépatoscopiques d'époque ancienne conservés au musée du Louvre (II)”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 40, pp. 56-97, 1945.: 81

Nougayrol, 1974J. Nougayrol, “Deux figures oubliées (K. 2092)”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 68, pp. 61-68, 1974.: 61

Richter, 1994T. Richter, “Untersuchungen zum Opferschauwesen. II. Zu einigen speziellen Keulenmarkierungen”, Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 21, pp. 212-246, 1994.: 238-239

Richter, 1994T. Richter, “Untersuchungen zum Opferschauwesen. II. Zu einigen speziellen Keulenmarkierungen”, Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 21, pp. 212-246, 1994.: 218, 235, 239

Record

Frazer, 10/2017 (Transliteration)

Frazer, 10/2017 (Translation)

Frazer, 10/2017 (Introduction)

Frahm & Jiménez, 10/2017 (Revision)

By Mary Frazer |

How to cite

Frazer, M., 2017, “Commentary on Bārûtu 8 Kakku (CCP 3.4.8.C),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 26, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P394184. DOI: 10079/x0k6dxg

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Introduction

A small fragment from the top left of the obverse side of a multi-column tablet of a commentary on the eighth chapter of the divination treatise bārûtu, “extispicy.” This chapter is concerned with the “weapon,” kakku, a small piece of tissue that can protrude from anywhere in the liver. The chapter is one of the less-well attested chapters of this treatise and is not yet available in a critical edition. On the left side of the column are the remains of two illustrations of the “weapon” visible on a sheep’s liver, and on the right is the text commentary. As noted by Frahm, the first entry after the heading (o 2) corresponds to the catchline of K 3837+, which is identified as “first nisḫu”. This means that the present tablet probably represents the “second nisḫu” of a commentary series on Kakku.”1

1. E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011. P. 182

Edition

ccpo

CT 31, pl. 14, K 02089


Obverse
Column i
o i 1o i 1	[BE šu-ta]-⸢bul⸣-ta šá ^gišḪUR-MEŠ ^gišTUKUL-MEŠ u ši-bi ana IGI-ka1	[If the interp]retation of the signs of “weapons” and variants before you.
o i 22	BE kak-su^*-ú ^gišTUKUL SÙḪ šá ^den-líl2	If there is an arrow-head, it is a “weapon” of confusion of the god Enlil;
o i 33	^gišTUKUL 15 GIM ^gišGAG GÀR.BA ga-ri-ir	(this refers to) a “weapon” on the right (that) is spherical like a knobbed nail;
o i 44	MAN^ú MU-NI ^gišTUKUL 15 GIM ka-mu-ni	alternatively, its entry (refers to) a “weapon” on the right (that) is like a kamūnu-fungus.
o i 55	an-ni-tu₄ ^gišḪUR-šú	This (i.e., the sketch to the left) is a drawing of it (i.e., the configuration at issue).

o i 66	BE ⸢pal-su-ú⸣ ^gišTUKUL SÙḪ šá ^d⸢IŠKUR⸣3	If there is an arrow-head, it is a weapon of confusion of the god Adad;
o i 77	⸢^giš⸣[TUKUL 15 šá GIM] SAG.⸢DU⸣ ^gišBAL sà-ḫi-⸢ir⸣4	(This refers to) [a weapon on the right which] is curved [like] a spindle whorl.
o i 88	[...] MUNUS.ḪUL ⸢ú^?⸣-[...]	[…] evil … […]
o i 99	[MAN^ú MU-NI ^giš]⸢TUKUL⸣ 15 GIM SAG.DU IG [...]	[alternatively, its entry (refers to)] a weapon on the right like the head … […]
o i 1010	[šal-šú MU-NI ^gišTUKUL] ⸢15⸣ GIM eš-⸢qá⸣-[ru-ur-ti (ga-ri-ir)]5	[third, its entry (refers to) a “weapon”] on the right [(that is curved)] like an ešqa[rrurtu-tool]
o i 1111	[an-ni-tu₄] ⸢^giš⸣[ḪUR-šú]	[This (i.e., the sketch to the left) is] a dr[awing of it (i.e., the configuration at issue).]

1This line functions as the heading of the section o i 2-5.

2As pointed out by Frahm (2011: 85 n. 425), this entry also appears in Multābiltu 1: 114.

3Reading following CAD B 65a.

4Reading following CAD B 65a. For comparisons in extispicy texts of other parts of the liver to a spindle whorl, see CAD 373a.

5Restoration following CAD B 65a.

DOI: 10079/x0k6dxg

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CT 31, pl. 14, K 02089