catalogue number it may be assumed that this tablet is from Babylon, for the same rea-
sons as have been stated above in relation to tablet N and tablet V.
X, BM32626
The script appears to be Neo-Babylonian, and in its original state the tablet probably con-
tained four columns of the first tablet of MUL.APIN. Little else can be said regarding the
provenience of this fragment. It was presumably acquired by the British Museum before
1894.
Y, K8598
This tablet originally contained only two columns of text. The script appears to be Neo-
Babylonian (cf. the form of ITI on obv. 15), and the demarcation ‘K’ suggests that this
tablet was excavated at Nineveh (but see note above).
AA, VAT9429
This tablet, now at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, is written in Neo-Assyrian script.^231
AfO 24 does not provide a photograph or drawing of the tablet but some parts were
quoted by Weidner.^232 The tablet was discovered in Ashur and was originally part of a
(^231) See the comments in AfO 24, 126.
(^232) E.F. Weidner, Handbuch der babylonischen Astronome: erster Band - der babylonische Fixsternhimmel
(Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1915) 141-42, and E.F. Weidner, Alter und Bedeutung der
babylonischen Astonomie und Astrallehre, nebst Studien über Fixsternhimmel und Kalendar (Im Kampfe
um den Alten Orient 4; Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1914) 24-25.