Cuneiform Commentaries Project

CCP 7.2.u27 - Uncertain

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The most arresting feature of this otherwise nondescript fragment is a quotation of a verse from the Epic of Creation (l.

CCP 3.1.u5 - Enūma Anu Enlil 53 (?)

This tablet preserves some fifty fragmentary lines of a commentary on the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil, specifically on a section of the series that deals with the movement of planets and stars.

CCP 3.1.42 - Enūma Anu Enlil 42 (?)

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This small fragment preserves modest remains of the end of a commentary on a tablet from the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil. It is furnished with a rubric that classifies it as a mukallimtu 2a commentary.

CCP 3.1.41 - Enūma Anu Enlil 41-43 (?)

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The one-column tablet 81-2-4,206 preserves commentaries on three tablets of the meteorological part of Enūma Anu Enlil.

CCP 3.1.26.A - Enūma Anu Enlil 26(27) A

The present tablet, which stems perhaps from the library of the Uruk scholar Anu-ikṣur, preserves the upper part of a commentary on the astrological divinatory text Enūma Anu Enlil 26(27).

CCP 3.1.24.E - Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) E

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[Reproduced from J. C.

CCP 3.1.20.B.b - Enūma Anu Enlil 20 B

This commentary is preserved on two identical tablets from Uruk, both of which contain a colophon that dates their production.

CCP 3.1.20.B.a - Enūma Anu Enlil 20 B

This commentary is preserved on two identical tablets from Uruk.

CCP 2.3 - Namburbi

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According to its rubric, this tablet contains a series of “questions” (mašʾaltu) on a ritual against the “evil signs that are seen against a man and his house.” The base text of the commentary is preserved in a tablet from Assur, LKA