CCP 3.4.1.A.i - Bārûtu 1 Isru A

Catalogue information
British Museum
DT 84
Babylon(Babylon)
CDLI: 
P433502
Publication
Editions: 

Heeßel & Koch, forthcomingN. P. Heeßel and Koch, U. S. , The two first chapters of the Art of the Diviner. .

Commentary
DivinationExtispicy (Bārûtu)

Broken

Base text: 
Bārûtu 1 Isru
Commentary no: 
A
Duplicates
Tablet information
Babylonian
Fragment
Columns: 
1
Lines: 
obv 8, rev 4
Size: 
3,49 × 9,2 cm
Colophon
Nabû-balāssu-iqbi s. Marduk-zēru-ibni d. Egibatila
Bibliography

Finkel, 2005I. L. Finkel, No. 69: Explanatory Commentary on a List of Materia Medica, in Cuneiform texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I. Spar and Lambert, W. G. , Eds. Metropolitan Museum, 2005, pp. 279-283.
[Colophon, cryptographic writing, copied from a parchment scroll]
: 283

Frahm, 2005E. Frahm, On Some Recently Published Late Babylonian Copies of Royal Letters, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2005/43, 2005.
[Egibatila tablet?]

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 31, 172, 239, 308

Gabbay, 2016U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries. Brill, 2016.: 39 (1), 72 (4, 6, 7), 135 (2), 291

Hunger, 1968H. Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone. Neukirchener Verlag, 1968.: 133 no. 478

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.
[comm. on ext.?]
: 281

Starr, 1992I. Starr, Chapters 1 and 2 of the bārûtu, State Archives of Assyria. Bulletin, vol. 6, pp. 45-53, 1992.
[Description of the chapter and its commentaries]
: 45-52

Record
Jiménez, 05/2014 (ATF Transliteration)
Jiménez, 05/2014 (Translation)
Jiménez, 05/2014 (Lemmatization)
Jiménez, 05/2014 (Introduction)
Jiménez, 08/2016 (Commentary markup)
Y. Cohen, 06/2017 (Reading suggestion [o 6: larsinnu])
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How to cite
Jiménez, E., 2014, “Commentary on Bārûtu 1 Isru (CCP 3.4.1.A.i),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed November 13, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P433502. DOI: 10079/34tmpv0
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Introduction

This tablet represents the latest known exemplar of the commentary on Isru, the first chapter of the series Barûtu. Several duplicates of this long commentary, termed here CCP 3.4.1.A, are known, the longest of which is K.3978+ (CCP 3.4.1.A.a), a tablet of originally around 250 lines. Specifically, lines 2-8 of the present tablet are duplicated by K.6540+ o 3-8 and K.3978+ i 3, 7-10.

The most interesting aspect of this tablet is its colophon, which records the name of its owner, Nabû-balāssu-iqbi (the theonym is written cryptographically with the sign dingir plus the sign ud repeated nine times). This scribe, a member of the Egibatila family who lived in Arsacid Babylon, was the owner of eight other commentary tablets. Dating to around the end of the second century BC, they represent the latest known group of commentaries. The present tablet is in fact the only commentary by this scribe for which much older copies are known, which testifies to the vitality of the "stream of tradition" still in this late period. Besides the present tablet, the only known manuscript of this commentary from outside of Kuyunjik is LKU 133 (CCP 3.4.1.A.h).

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