B, K8117
The script is Neo-Assyrian, and the signs are well executed and evenly spaced. Only the
top left corner of this tablet is preserved, so no information regarding its dimensions can
be known. There is a horizontal ruling marking the top margin preserved, but there is no
horizontal ruling marking sections as would be expected between lines 10-11. The hori-
zontal direction of the written lines is straight, and the text does not appear to exceed the
margin where preserved. This tablet may have been similar to tablet A in its preparation
and execution, as is indicated by the very straight top edge and carefully written script.
The clay is an even terracotta colour throughout, and contains very few impurities. There
is no visible vitrification.
C, Rm2,344
The museum catalogue number suggests that this tablet was excavated from the North
Palace at Nineveh.^683 This is a fragment from the middle of a tablet written in a fairly
crowded Neo-Assyrian script. There is some stylisation of the signs evident in the very
elongated horizontal stroke of MEŠ in line 3. The horizontal direction of the lines appears
to drift downwards to the right, but this is a small fragment of the original tablet so the
linear character of the entire text is uncertain. There are two horizontal rulings preserved
that separate the text into sections. No edges or vertical rulings dividing columns are pre-
served.
(^683) See D. Brown, Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology (^) , 18-19.