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NBC 7843 (CCP 3.1.5.E [1])
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Mesopotamian commentaries represent the world’s oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts. Numbering nearly 900, the earliest date to the eighth century and the latest to ca. 100 BCE. The purpose of this website is to make the corpus available both to the scholarly community and a more general audience by providing background information on the genre, a searchable catalog, as well as photos, drawings, annotated editions, and translations of individual commentary tablets. For the first time the cuneiform commentaries, currently scattered over 21 museums around the globe, will be accessible on one platform.

The Cuneiform Commentaries Project is funded by Yale University (2013-2016) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Research Programs “Scholarly Editions and Translations,” 2015-2018).

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CCP 3.1.u7 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This fragment preserves the lower part of a four-column tablet with an unusual commentary text. The base text, which is hitherto unrecovered, is an astrological treatise containing cryptographically written omens. Read more about CCP 3.1.u7 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [3]	CCP 7.2.u27 - Uncertain [4] [4] [4] [4] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The most arresting feature of this otherwise nondescript fragment is a quotation of a verse from the Epic of Creation (l. Read more about CCP 7.2.u27 - Uncertain [4]	CCP 3.1.u40 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment belongs to the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” specifically to the 82-3-23 consignment, believed to stem to a great extent from the city of Dilbat. Read more about CCP 3.1.u40 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [5]	CCP 3.1.u42 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum It is uncertain whether the present fragment represents a commentary text on Enūma Anu Enlil, as stated by Leichty in the catalogue of the "Sippar Collection." Read more about CCP 3.1.u42 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [6]
CCP 3.1.u45 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment belongs to a commentary that appears to be concerned with constellations and gods. The exact base text on which the present piece comments is uncertain. As U. Read more about CCP 3.1.u45 - Enūma Anu Enlil (?) [7]	CCP 3.1.u5 - Enūma Anu Enlil 53 (?) [8] [8] 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. Read more about CCP 3.1.u5 - Enūma Anu Enlil 53 (?) [8]	CCP 3.1.55.B - Enūma Anu Enlil 55 B [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum Large fragment in Neo-Assyrian script containing all or parts of the first twenty seven lines of a commentary on EAE 55 (according to the Nineveh numbering system) on its obverse, and parts of the commentary’s last seven lines on its revers Read more about CCP 3.1.55.B - Enūma Anu Enlil 55 B [9]	CCP 3.1.55.G - Enūma Anu Enlil 55 G [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] © Vorderasiatisches Museum Although cited in secondary literature already in 1925,1 this is the first published text edition of this commentary. Read more about CCP 3.1.55.G - Enūma Anu Enlil 55 G [10]