Cuneiform Commentaries Project

CCP 1.1.A.b - Enūma eliš 1-7 A

Catalogue information

British Museum

BM 66606

82-9-18,6599+ 82-9-18,12037

Sippar›(Sippar), 82-9-18 consignment

joins:

BM 66606+ BM 72033

CDLI:

P461277

Publication

Copy:

Lambert Folio 9877 [tr]

MC 16 pl. 37

Photo:

AOAT 375 pls. xxx

Editions:

Frahm & Jiménez, 2015E. Frahm and Jiménez, E. , “Myth, Ritual, and Interpretation. The Commentary on Enūma eliš I–VII and a Commentary on Elamite Month Names”, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, vol. 4, pp. 293-343, 2015.

Commentary

Literary›Enūma eliš

Broken

Base text:

Enūma eliš 1-7

Commentary no:

A

Duplicates

Tablet information

Babylonian

Fragment

Columns:

1 (or >)

Lines:

obv. 12, edge 1, rev. 9

Size:

4,76 × 4,13 cm

Chaldean / early Achaemenid (late 7th / 6th cent) (mostly "Sippar Collection")

Bibliography

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 114, 287

Gabbay, 2016U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries. Brill, 2016.
[On line Ee VII 9]: 163

Kämmerer & Metzler, 2012T. Kämmerer and Metzler, K. A. , Das babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos Enūma elîš. Ugarit-Verlag, 2012.: Tf. IV Kom. B; Tf. VII Kom. L

Lambert, 2013W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths. Eisenbrauns, 2013.
[Edition and discussion]: 70, 72, 82, 94, 106, 120, 134, 135-144

By Eckart Frahm & Mary Frazer & Enrique Jiménez |

How to cite

Frahm, E. & Frazer, M. & Jiménez, E., 2013, “Commentary on Enūma eliš 1-7 (CCP 1.1.A.b),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 19, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P461277. DOI: 10079/ns1rnnm

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Edition

DOI: 10079/ns1rnnm

Photos by Enrique Jiménez

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum