Large fragment in Neo-Assyrian script containing all or parts of the first twenty seven lines of a commentary on EAE 55 (according to the Nineveh numbering system) on its obverse, and parts of the commentary’s last seven lines on its reverse. The fragment consists of three smaller fragments (K.2314 + K.6519 + K.15255), joined by E. Reiner and W. G. Lambert. The commentary is followed by a two-line rubric and the remains of an Ashurbanipal colophon (possibly ‘Typ i-k’ = BAK no. 323).
The rubric identifies the preceding text as a mukallimtu-commentary, which is consistent with the text’s indentation format: only those lines which begin with a quotation of a new omen are not indented (but cf. o 6 and 10). The commentary also uses cola, albeit inconsistently, to equate the base text with the explanation (e.g., o 2 and 3). In two cases, it uses cola alongside line indentation (o 7 and 11).
The commentary focuses on omens derived from the movement and appearance of the Yoke Constellation (wr. mulšudun and mulšu.pa, = modern Boötes), although the final entry begins, “If the Waggon Constellation …” (wr. mulmar.gíd.da. The commentary equates the Yoke Constellation with Jupiter several times – the equation is made both explicitly (o 2) and implicitly (o 14-15, 16-17, 18, 19 and 20-21) – and with Mars once (o 22-23). Jupiter is also implicitly equated with both Mercury (o 6-7 and 10-11) and Venus (r 2′-3′ and 4′-5′).
The opening line, when read in conjunction with the opening line of CCP 3.1.55.G, l. 1, allows the incipit of EAE 55 to be identified securely as šumma mulnīru ina āṣīšu šaqûma ītanmar (“If the Yoke Constellation, when it rises, is (literally: was) high and visible”).
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