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The Historical Setting We have restricted this investigation to cuneiform tablets from the first millennium B.C.E. Texts will pr ...

amounts of tablets at Kuyunjik, the main mound at Nineveh, were made during excava- tions by A.H. Layard, H.C. Rawlinson and H. ...

based on solid statistical evidence. The potential for comparative material to be present in this collection is illustrated by t ...

of professionals. Subsequently a number of the tablets recovered from Kuyunjik are writ- ten in Babylonian script.^113 Thus duri ...

rounding the provenance of individual tablets as they are examined. Even with our rather incomplete knowledge about the origins ...

authentic tablets, and information as to the conditions under which many of the unprove- nanced tablets were acquired. As contro ...

amassed that will give a reasonable indication of what one can expect to find in the broader corpus of Ancient Near Eastern lite ...

copy. Rather, a transmitted text of this type was something that owed some of its form to the style and preference of the scribe ...

tradition served by successive generations of learned and well-trained scribes.”^121 He re- ferred to these texts as the ‘stream ...

eighth century B.C.E.^125 The focus of the present analysis must therefore be on the texts that were authoritative in this sense ...

account. For the text known as MUL.APIN, ‘the plough star,’ all available sources will be considered, including copies from pers ...

and so are especially convenient for the present purposes. In addition previous publica- tions of the tablets have been used to ...

CHAPTER 4 – ENŪMA ANU ENLIL TABLET 63 The Text The 63rd tablet of the series Enūma Anu Enlil is also known as the ‘Venus Tablet ...

While the first three sections are represented in all of the exemplars remaining to us, the fourth section is less regularly rep ...

with some other fragments of section IV, BM37121+37432. Walker proposes that L and the other associated fragments can be joined ...

this is the sixty-third tablet in the series Enūma Anu Enlil, and also contains the personal name Nergal-uballit.^137 The script ...

edge of M. This suggests an uneven heating process, in which more heat was applied to the upper right part of the tablet.^140 It ...

most preserved copy. The British Museum catalogue number suggests that this tablet was part of the library that stood in the Sou ...

some areas showing a more red hue that suggests slightly uneven firing temperatures.^146 Firing holes have been pressed into mos ...

One fragment, J, preserves a colophon, but unfortunately this is broken and provides rather inconclusive evidence. Importantly, ...