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with some other fragments of section IV, BM37121+37432. Walker proposes that L and
the other associated fragments can be joined to K7090.^136 The following table therefore
gives the sigla used in Reiner’s edition, while the fragments presented in the discussion
of the sources reflects Reiner’s sigla with the later joins taken into account.


Table - EAE 63: Tablets Under Examination


Siglum Museum Number
A K2321+3032
B W1924.802
C K160
D K7225
F BM37010
H BM36758+37496
J BM36395
L K12344+12758
M K3105
N BM41688


Description of the Sources The Tablets.................................................................................................................... 61 


A, K2321+3032; M, K3105

The museum catalogue prefix ‘K’ suggests this tablet was probably from Nineveh, and as
such it will be considered here as originally housed in the royal collections. The original
unbroken tablet seems to have contained all of the sections I-IV. The colophon states that


(^136) See C.B.F. Walker, "Notes on the Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa," (^) JCS 36, 1 (1984) 64-66.

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