This previously unpublished fragment has been identified as a commentary on the divination series Šumma Ālu from a list of commentary fragments kindly made available by Christopher B. F. Walker. The tablet is formed by two joining fragments, BM 48344+ BM 48536. The preserved portion contains glosses on selected entries from Šumma Ālu 6 and 7. It is uncertain whether the commentary originally covered more tablets from Šumma Ālu, although it seems likely in view of the distribution of lines between obverse and reverse. A rubric is preserved at the end of the section dealing with Šumma Ālu VI, which presumably classifies the text as a ṣâtu commentary and offers the incipit of the tablet.

The glosses appear to be mostly philological. Thus in line o 9ʹ the logogram gar-meš is rendered syllabically as [it-t]a-na-aš-kan. In one case the commentary may contain a fanciful explanation of a difficult plant name: o 5ʹ seems to render kuzublatû as ūru ša sinništi, “female pudenda,” perhaps by association with kuzbu, “allure.” Lines from the base text appear to be quoted in full (see o 9ʹ and r 8ʹ-9ʹ). The commentary uses the technical terms šanîš (o 3ʹ) and aššu (o 9ʹ).

Two other Šumma Ālu commentaries from the 81-11-3 collection have been identified in the course of the Cuneiform Commentaries Project: CCP 3.5.1.B (on Šumma Ālu 1) and CCP 3.5.u7 (on Šumma Ālu Sleep Omens). The present fragment, which is written in an elegant and clear script, may belong to the same tablet as the latter text. Moreover, the fragment BM 48575 (CCP 3.5.6.B) was identified by the present editor in 2016 as probably part of the same tablet as the present fragment.