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 The catalogue designation ‘K’ indicates that this
fragment was excavated from Kuyunjik, though its exact location at that site is unknown.
Q, Rm322
The script is Neo-Babylonian (cf. the form of KA and ITI on obv. iii 11). The catalogue
designation Rm indicates that the tablet was part of Rassam’s excavations and acquisi-
tions in 1877-78. While most of the material in the Rm collection is Assyrian in origin
there is some material from Babylonia.^228
R, BM35207
The script of this tablet is Neo-Babylonian, and the signs are regularly between 4mm to
5mm in height. There is some crowding of the signs between lines 5 and 7. No rulings are
visible on the tablet, but the horizontal direction of the text is even. No edges are pre-
served so nothing can be said regarding margins. Only the obverse of the tablet remains
and this indicates that the tablet was over 2.5cm thick at its centre. The clay has only mi-
nor impurities and there is some cracking in the surface. The colour is a light terracotta so
this tablet appears to have been baked after excavation to enable safe shipping.
T, BM41218
The tablet originally contained four columns of the first tablet of MUL.APIN written in
Neo-Babylonian script. Some horizontal rulings separating sections are visible on the ob-
(^227) See the comments in AfO 24, 6.
(^228) See note above.