CCP 3.1.u51 - Enūma Anu Enlil, eclipses

Catalogue information
British Museum
K.11560
Nineveh›Nineveh (Kuyunjik)
CDLI: 
P399317
Commentary
Divination›Astrological. Enūma Anu Enlil

mukallimtu 2b

Base text: 
Enūma Anu Enlil, eclipses
Tablet information
Assyrian
Fragment
Columns: 
1 (or >)
Lines: 
obv 1, rev 10
Size: 
3,81 × 3,17 cm
7th cent (Assurbanipal libraries and other Assyrian cities)
Colophon
Asb Typ k
Bibliography

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 45, 133, 162

Hunger, 1968H. Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone. Neukirchener Verlag, 1968.
[Colophon]: 104-105 no. 336

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.
[Sîn? comm.]: 255

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Jiménez, 03/2014 (ATF Transliteration)
Jiménez, 03/2014 (Translation)
Jiménez, 03/2014 (Lemmatization)
Jiménez, 03/2014 (Introduction)
Jiménez, 08/2016 (Commentary markup)
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Jiménez, E., 2014, “Commentary on Enūma Anu Enlil, eclipses (CCP 3.1.u51),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2025; accessed January 22, 2025, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P399317. DOI: 10079/3n5tbfk
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Introduction

This is a small fragment with a commentary on eclipse omens. The obverse is almost completely lost, and only the left hand part of ten lines of the reverse are preserved.

According to its rubric, the tablet represents the 38th nisḫu of a mukallimtu-commentary on Enūma Anu Enlil. It thus belongs to the same series of nisḫu-excerpts of mukallimtu-commentaries as CCP 3.1.8.A.b and CCP 3.1.15.1 It uses the indentation format, but also a Glossenkeil in line rev 5'. It concludes with an Ashurbanipal "Typ k" colophon, which occurs in several other astrological commentaries.

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K 11560[via ccpo]

Obverse
o 1o 1

* AN.GE₆ [...]

If an eclipse [...]

(rest of obverse missing)
Reverse
rr NaN  (start of reverse missing)
r 1'r 1'

[(x) x EN.NUN].AN.ÚSAN [...]

[...] the evening watch [...],

r 2'2'

[(x) x ul]-⸢la⸣-nu-um-ma ⸢ana⸣ [...]

[...] from the beginning [...],

r 3'3'

[(x) x x x] ⸢x⸣-šú AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [GAR-ma ...]

[... in] his [... there is] an eclipse [...],

r 4'4'

[* x] ⸢x⸣ ina dUTU.È GUB-[ma ...]

[If ...] stands in the east [...]

r 5'5'

      LUGAL URIki ÚŠ : ina tu₁₅[...]

The king of Akkad will die. (That means) in the [...],

r 6'6'

      ina tu₁₅MAR.TU [...]

in the west [...].

(colophon)
r 7'7'

38 nis-ḫu mu-kal-lim-ti * ⸢U₄⸣ [AN dEN.LÍL šu-ut KA]

38th section of the mukallimtu-commentary on Enūma [Anu Enlil, with oral explanations],

r 8'8'

šá KA UM.ME.A šá ŠÀ * AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [x x x x x x x]

following the sayings of a scholar, (referring to entries) from "If an eclipse [...]".

r 9'9'

É.GAL mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN GAL MAN ⸢dan⸣-[nu (MAN ŠÚ MAN kuraš-šurki) šá dNÀ u dtaš-me-tu₄]

Palace of Ashurbanipal, the great king, the mighty king, [(king of the universe), king of Aššur, on whom Nabû and Tašmētum]

r 10'10'

ARḪUŠ TUKU-MEŠ-šu-ma ki-ma AD [u AMA ú-šar-bu-u-šú]

have bestowed mercy [and whom they have raised] like a father [and a mother].

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