CCP 7.2.u83 - Uncertain

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

This is a fragment from the upper right corner of a two or three-column Kuyunjik tablet written in Babylonian script. The obverse contains meager remains of a commentary that explains with short phrases names of planets and stars.

CCP 3.5.1.B - Ālu 1 B

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This small fragment was identified as a commentary on the first tablet of the divination series Šumma Ālu from a list of commentary fragments kindly made available by Christopher B. F. Walker.

CCP 4.2.AA - Therapeutic (?)

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This previously unpublished fragment contains remains of a commentary on a text perhaps of medical or extispicy nature. Although the exact base text on which the commentary draws is unknown, parallels to the individual entries can be found.

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