Cuneiform Commentaries Project Update

Cuneiform Commentaries Project Update

Recent additions to the corpus

The present tablet, copied by [Iqīšāya son of Ištar-šumu-ēreš], of the Ekurzakir family, is according to its rubric a ṣâtu-commentary on a tablet whose incipit is šumma amēlu ana sinništīšu libbašu inaššīšū-ma, “If a man has desire f Read more about CCP 4.1.34 - Sagig 34	This small landscape-oriented tablet from Assur contains commentarial notes on two lines of the incantation Marduk’s Address to the Demons, a line of an incantation so far attested only in Muššu’u, and a line of Udugḫul III. Read more about CCP 2.2.1.A.b - Marduk’s Address, Muššuʾu, and Udughul A	Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This large tablet contains a commentary on a section of the exorcistic text known as “Marduk’s Address to the Demons.” Only a few lines (ll. 60-74) are commented upon in the tablet. Read more about CCP 2.2.1.B - Marduk’s Address B
Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This previously unidentified fragment belongs to the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” and contains a commentary on Padān šumēl marti, the 8th tablet of the 5th chapt Read more about CCP 3.4.5.Q - Bārûtu 5 Pān tākalti 8 Q	© Royal Ontario Museum The following tablet is a Late Babylonian commentary on the 14th tablet of the teratological divination series Šumma Izbu. Read more about CCP 3.6.3.D - Izbu 14 D	Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This tiny fragment from the British Museum’s “Babylon Collection” preserves meager remains of a lexical list or tabular commentary dealing with field pests. Read more about CCP 7.2.u44 - Uncertain