Cuneiform Commentaries Project

CCP 3.1.5.A - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 (?) A

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This landscape-oriented tablet contains a commentary in the indentation format, written in Babylonian script.

CCP 1.5 - Literary Prayer to Marduk 2

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This small and badly damaged tablet contains a commentary that deals with the first sixty-eight lines of the literary prayer Lord, Sage of the Igigi, a text frequently called, after Lambert’s pioneering edition,

CCP 3.1.58.A.b - Enūma Anu Enlil 58(59)-62(63) Group B A

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A mukallimtu commentary from Nineveh on 24 omens

CCP 4.1.7.C.c - Sagig 7 (?) C

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This small fragment from the lower left corner of a tablet contains what appears to be a commentary on a medical text. Since one of the entries (l. 10′), “he has been sick during the 31st day, hand of DN,” is only known in Sagig (e.g.

CCP 7.2.u175 - Uncertain

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This small fragment, which probably stems from Babylon, shares its consignment number (81-11-3) with around 40 other tablets and fragments (see a list here).

CCP 3.9.u7 - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 (?)

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This small fragment contains remains of a commentary on an astrological text. It is divided in two sections by a ruling after line 4′. The first section probably elaborates on astronomical omens by interpreting them as the movement of planets.

CCP 7.2.u171 - Uncertain

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There is no proof that this small, nondescript fragment belongs to a commentary. Although some cola are visible (ll. 2 and 3), the fragment may well belong to an incantation (as suggested by l. 4) or a bilingual text (as suggested by l. 3).

CCP 3.5.6.B - Ālu 6 B

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This fragment contains remains of what appears to be a commentary on the 6th tablet of the series of terrestrial omens Šumma Ālu (see below the commentary on lines r 6′-7′).

CCP 7.2.u165 - Bird omens (?)

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This fragment preserves remains of a commentary on an unidentified text. The first two lines of the reverse probably explain Jupiter’s name dapīnu, “violent,” which means that the base text might be astrological.