Cuneiform Commentaries Project Update
Recent additions to the corpus
The present tablet, copied by [Iqīšāya son of Ištar-šumu-ēreš], of the Ekurzakir family, is according to its rubric a ṣâtu-commentary on a tablet whose incipit is šumma amēlu ana sinništīšu libbašu inaššīšū-ma, “If a man has desire f This small landscape-oriented tablet from Assur contains commentarial notes on two lines of the incantation Marduk’s Address to the Demons, a line of an incantation so far attested only in Muššu’u, and a line of Udugḫul III. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British MuseumThis large tablet contains a commentary on a section of the exorcistic text known as “Marduk’s Address to the Demons.” Only a few lines (ll. 60-74) are commented upon in the tablet. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British MuseumThis previously unidentified fragment belongs to the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” and contains a commentary on Padān šumēl marti, the 8th tablet of the 5th chapt © Royal Ontario MuseumThe following tablet is a Late Babylonian commentary on the 14th tablet of the teratological divination series Šumma Izbu. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British MuseumThis tiny fragment from the British Museum’s “Babylon Collection” preserves meager remains of a lexical list or tabular commentary dealing with field pests.