Tuesday, June 28, 2016

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



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.



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.
 

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