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V71 C:r42 GÁL.ME OV – C has the plural marker ME, against M:r14 ]MEŠ MEŠ in M. Discussion of the Variants Orthographic Variants ...

Source C has a mixture of forms, using syllabic spelling 13 times against five occur- rences of the logogram ZAL. The mixed spel ...

Other orthographic variants are less common. It is possible that D preserves a variant spelling of tibnu in the first line. This ...

Two more variants of this type involve possible extra dates given in N for the period of western visibility of Venus (V 69 and V ...

sion or accidents of preservation.^201 In three of these cases the variation between sources affects the month name in which a g ...

Another example of this type of variation is found at V65. Here we see that B varies from all of the other parallel sources in i ...

CHAPTER 5 – MUL.APIN The Text The following analysis relies primarily on the critical edition of the sources published by Hunger ...

The Tablets All of the preserved tablets date to the first millennium B.C.E. and appear to be from both Babylonian and Assyrian ...

Siglum Museum Number Y K8598 AA VAT9429 BB VAT9435 CC K11251 DD ND4405/30 EE ND5497/22 FF Rm2,174+313 GG K6558+Sm1907 JJ VAT9527 ...

B, K13254 This tablet was originally described as a Babylonian fragment of a religious text,^213 how- ever the drawing in AfO 24 ...

excavated in what is now southern Iraq by H. Rassam.^215 This tablet was published by T.G. Pinches.^216 E, AO7540+ This tablet, ...

F, K3852 This fragment was originally described as a Babylonian astronomical forecast.^219 The tab- let is more properly conside ...

H, BM76505 The tablet originally contained four columns, most likely holding the text of the first tab- let of MUL.APIN. The scr ...

J, Rm319 The division of the text seems to be different in this tablet. The tablet is probably of Ku- yunjik origin but this is ...

umns, most likely consisting of the first tablet of MUL.APIN. The preserved fragment is a flake of five lines with part of the t ...

passim, and GU on obv. ii 11). The tablet is likely to have contained parts of both tablets of MUL.APIN in its four columns.^227 ...

verse and reverse. From the catalogue number it may be assumed that this tablet was ex- cavated from Babylon or Borsippa in late ...

catalogue number it may be assumed that this tablet is from Babylon, for the same rea- sons as have been stated above in relatio ...

private library that belonged to a family of scribes. The tablet dates to the seventh century B.C.E.^233 BB, VAT9435 Like tablet ...

DD, ND4405/30 The fragment is from Nimrud (ancient Kalḫu) and is written in Neo-Assyrian script.^236 The tablet originally had f ...