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
Description of the Sources iii
A, BM86278
The script is Neo-Babylonian. The colophon states that this is “DUB.1.KAM MUL.APIN
[... kīma] labīrišu šatirma bari, “tablet one of MUL.APIN [... according to] its original,
written and checked.”^210 The museum registration number suggests that this tablet was
excavated from Babylonia in uncontrolled excavations late in the second half of the 19th
century. A drawing of the tablet was published in 1912 by L.W. King.^211 Weidner con-
sidered this tablet to have been produced in around the third century B.C.E.^212 Little else
can be said regarding the provenience of this tablet.
(^209) For a full description of the sources for MUL.APIN, with information on the various editions and se-
lected bibliography, see AfO 24, 4-8. The following description of the sources supplements that in AfO 24
with information on script and the possible provenience of the tablets. Where possible a description of the
physical properties of the tablets has been supplied. 210
211 The colophon is found on the second tablet, col. iv 40-41.
See the drawing by L.W. King, Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Part
XXXIII 212 (CT 33; London: The British Museum, 1912) pl. 1-8.
See note below.