ing certain actions and prompts for reciting the incantations.^678 It is the sources for the
tablet containing the ritual instructions from Nineveh that will be the topic of examina-
tion here. The incantation tablets will not be considered.
The Tablets
Fragments from 18 tablets have been recovered from Nineveh providing for some exten-
sive overlap.^679 These fragments are assumed to have been part of the collection amassed
during Ashurbanipal’s reign, and most fragments are assumed to have been in the collec-
tion of the royal library.^680 In addition to these tablets, fragments from three Late-
Babylonian school texts that quote extensive sections of the Nineveh ritual have also
been included in the analysis.^681 The following list of tablets uses the sigla given to the
various tablets by C.B.F. Walker and M.B. Dick with one minor adjustment.^682
(^) Table - Sources for mīs pî Under Examination
SiglumA Museum Number
A^12 K6324+8146+8850+9337+9942+10361+10657+10705+13514 K6810+8568+9696
B K8117 C Rm2,344
D K10060 E K6883
(^678) C.B.F. Walker and M.B. Dick, "The Induction of the Cult Image," 69.
(^679) The following tablets have been inspected: A, B, D, G, and I. For all of the other tablets the high resolu-
tion digitised photographs that appear on the compact disc included with C.B.F. Walker and M.B. Dick,
Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary 680 , have been consulted.
681 C.B.F. Walker and M.B. Dick, Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary, 27-28.
682 These tablets are given the sigla S, T and U.
C.B.F. Walker and M.B. Dick, Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary. In line with the sigla used
for the fragments of Gilgamesh XI and LH, the siglum A 1 designates the fragments K6324+8146+8850+
9337+9942+10361+10657+10705+13514, and the siglum A 2 designates the fragments K6810+8568+9696.