Cuneiform Commentaries Project

CCP 7.2.u69 - Uncertain

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This small piece contains some lines of the right edge of a tablet. It preserves the remains of a commentary on an unknown text.

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 4.3.u3 - Materia medica

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This small fragment belongs to a commentary on materia medica, whose main concern seems to be to provide equivalents for plant and stone names.

CCP 3.7.2.K - Alamdimmû K

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The present tablet contains a fragmentary commentary, classified in a badly damaged rubric as a ṣâtu 7a commentary. However, the section that should preserve the title of the text commented upon is broken.

CCP 7.2.u49 - Uncertain

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The previously unpublished fragments BM 41481 and BM 41635 belong both to the British Museum’s 81-6-25 consignment of tablets, which is reported to stem mostly from Babylon.

CCP 4.1.4.C.b - Sagig 4 C

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This small fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on an unknown text.

CCP 7.2.u43 - Uncertain

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This fragment preserves remains of a commentary on an unidentified text. Since some of its lines equate constellations and gods, and one entry cites the “Great Star List” (l.

CCP 6.1.2.B - Aa I/2 (?) B

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This fragment contains remains of a commentary on a text of uncertain nature. The fact that it features a technical lexical term (ka.ka.si.ga, b 3′) suggests that the base text may be of lexical nature.

CCP 3.7.2.J - Alamdimmû 9-12 J

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This hitherto unpublished tablet from Babylon contains a short but complete commentary on the last four chapters of the physiognomic divinatory series Alamdimmû.