CCP 7.2.u178 - Uncertain

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

There is no proof that this small and badly damaged fragment from Babylon belongs to a text commentary, but the presence of a Glossenkeil dividing two apparently similar words in l. 7′ suggests that it might be one.

CCP 7.2.u97 - Uncertain

Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum

This small fragment, which was drawn to our attention by N. Veldhuis, contains remains of a commentary in tabular format. It is written in Babylonian script, and its contents suggest that its base text is of medical nature (see e.g.

Actual Sense and Scriptural Intention: Literal Meaning and Its Terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew Commentaries

U. Gabbay, “Actual Sense and Scriptural Intention: Literal Meaning and Its Terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew Commentaries”, in Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians, U. Gabbay and Secunda, S. , Eds. Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 335-370.

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