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T, K10485

This is a Neo-Assyrian fragment from Kuyunjik. It was published by Meissner in


1908.^350


W, VAT991
This tablet, now at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, is written in Late Babylonian script.
According to the colophon this tablet is DUB.7.KAM [i]-nu AN ṣi-ru-um, “the seventh
tablet in (the series) ‘When the exalted Anum.’”^351


Z, VAT1036
The script is Late Babylonian. Unlike tablet W there is no colophon preserved. See note
above for the publication details for this fragment.


b, Sm1642
The script is Neo-Assyrian. The designation ‘Sm’ indicates that this tablet is from the
Southwest Palace at Kuyunjik.^352


(^350) B. Meissner, "Altbabylonische Gesetze," 507, and see the drawing in E. Bergmann, (^) Codex Hammurabi,
pl. 47. 351
See the colophon in G.R. Driver and J.C. Miles, Babylonian Laws, 114. This tablet and tablet Z were
first published in A. Ungnad, Keilschrifttexte der Gesetze Hammurapis: Autographie der Stele sowie der
altbabylonischen, assyrischen und neubabylonischen Fragmente (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) 42. The drawing
used in the present study for tablets W and Z is from E. Bergmann, 352 Codex Hammurabi, pl. 51.
See the reference in note above. Tablet b and tablet c were both published in B. Meissner, "Altbaby-
lonische Gesetze," 509-10.

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