DD, ND4405/30
The fragment is from Nimrud (ancient Kalḫu) and is written in Neo-Assyrian script.^236
The tablet originally had four columns containing the first tablet of MUL.APIN. This tab-
let and tablet EE, also from Nimrud, were probably written between the end of the ninth
century B.C.E. and the end of the seventh century B.C.E.^237
EE, ND5497/22
This fragment is from Nimrud and is written in Neo-Assyrian script. It is possible that
this was a copy of the first tablet in the series which perhaps also included abbreviated
portions of the second tablet.^238 Like tablet DD it probably pertains to the Temple of
Nabû at ancient Kalḫu, being written between the end of the ninth and the late seventh
century B.C.E. (see note ).
(^236) The tablet was published in D.J. Wiseman and J. Black, (^) Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud IV: Literary
Texts From the Temple of Nabû 237 (CTN IV; London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1996) pl. 20.
The two tablets from Nimrud, DD and EE, were discovered in a storeroom located across the main
courtyard of the Temple of Nabû, E-zida, and so were probably part of a collection related to that temple.
The majority of texts from this excavation are written in Assyrian script, and presumably stem from the
period of the temple library’s continuous use between 800 B.C.E. and 616 B.C.E. Some movement of texts
between Kalḫu and Nineveh is probable (see CTN IV, 4-5, and D. Brown, Mesopotamian Planetary As-
tronomy-Astrology, 21). For the colophons of these texts see CTN IV, 6 n. 73, and H. Hunger, Babylonische
und Assyrische Kolophone 238 (Kevelaer: Butson & Bercker, 1968) 293-311.
AfO 24, 7. For the publication of the text see CTN IV, pl. 21.