C), such as would obtain in a fierce conflagration. It is possible to imagine, then, that this
tablet was broken and burnt during the fall of Nineveh in 612 B.C.E.
N, BM41688
Very little can be said about this small fragment. The museum catalogue number suggests
that it was purchased or extracted from unrecorded excavations in central Babylonia.^155
The script, labelled Neo-Babylonian by Reiner and Late Babylonian by Walker, would fit
this assumption.^156 We will therefore consider this as a fragment from a tablet that was
copied in the sixth century in central Babylonia.
Table - Number of SU preserved in the Sources for EAE 63^157
Fragment Total SU
A+M 462
B 282
C 1206.5
D 54.5
F+H+J 309
G+L 163
N 45
(^155) J.E. Reade, "Rassam's Babylonian Collection," xxviii-xxxi has indicated that tablets with ascension
numbers in the range BM33328 – BM77218 are from Rassam’s excavations in Babylonia between 1879-
- Further, items in number ranges BM40462-BM41389 and BM42259-45607 are reportedly from Baby-
lon, Borsippa and Sippar, with the latter range also including material from Kutha. We must therefore as-
sume that BM41688 was most likely from the same central Babylonian region. 156
157 See E. Reiner, BPO 1, 11; C.B.F. Walker, "Notes on the Venus Tablet," 66.
The tablet represents the number of SU preserved in the fragments with the joins proposed by E. Reiner
and C.B.F. Walker taken into account.