Cuneiform Commentaries Project (original) (raw)

Cuneiform Commentaries Project https://ccp.yale.edu/frontpage en CCP 6.7.A - Weidner’s God List A https://ccp.yale.edu/P461274

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Neither rubric nor colophon are preserved on this cola-type commentary from the British Museum’s Sippar Collection. The fragment is rather thick.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞44 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 81073 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 3.5.22.A.b - Ālu 22-23 A https://ccp.yale.edu/P461301
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This commentary is preserved in two virtually identical manuscripts from two different cities. The first one, SpTU 5 259 (CCP 3.5.22.A.a), was found during the German excavations at Uruk.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞10 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 80939 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 3.6.3.A - Izbu 7 A https://ccp.yale.edu/P415763

This almost perfectly preserved tablet contains a thirty-four line commentary on the 7th tablet of the teratological series Šumma Izbu.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞19 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 80979 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 6.1.13.B.b - Aa II/5 (pirsu 13) B https://ccp.yale.edu/P461262
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The present text, a small fragment in the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” but possibly originating from Babylon, contains short comments on entries from Aa II/3, II/4 and II/5.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞44 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 81053 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 6.2.5 - Diri 5 (?) https://ccp.yale.edu/P461151
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This small fragment, which probably originates from Babylon, appears to contain entries of the fifth tablet of the supplemental syllabary Diri.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞44 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 81064 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 3.1.5.D - Enūma Anu Enlil 5, 17-23(24) D https://ccp.yale.edu/P395431
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What remains of this multi-columned commentary (one large fragment joined to two smaller ones

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:16:54 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 80472 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 4.3.u4 - Sagig 14 (?) https://ccp.yale.edu/P470005
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This small fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on a medical text.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:19:16 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 81236 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 3.5.30 - Ālu 30-32 (“27-30”) https://ccp.yale.edu/P237754
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This almost entirely preserved tablet written in Babylonian script was the first tablet accessioned in the Kuyunjik collection (K.1). It contains a commentary on four chapters of the series of terrestrial omens Šumma Ālu.

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:17:31 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 120659 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 3.5.49 - Ālu 49 https://ccp.yale.edu/P461298
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This tablet preserves one of the latest datable commentaries. According to its colophon, the tablet was copied by Nabû-šumu-līšir son of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, grandson of Marduk-zēru-ibni, of the Egibatila family.

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23🔞10 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 80948 at https://ccp.yale.edu CCP 2.1.D - Maqlû 1-3, Šurpu 3 D https://ccp.yale.edu/P369075

The tablet Ass. 13955dq (VAT 8928), copied as KAR 94, comments on Maqlû I-III (lines 1’-45’) and Šurpu III (lines 46’-61’).

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:16:41 +0000 Enrique Jiménez 80431 at https://ccp.yale.edu