Title
Ancient Mesopotamian Divinatory Series from the British Museum: New Texts and Joins
Abstract
This paper contains editions of three previously unpublished omen texts and one commentary text from the collections of the British Museum. BM 36165 and BM 34999 are Late Babylonian manuscripts of Šumma ālu tablet 1 while K 6260 is a join to Šumma izbu tablet 4. BM 47684+ is part of a large Late Babylonian four-column tablet containing a new commentary on physiognomic omens. The edition of these tablets is accompanied by an extensive commentary that discusses the placement of the tablets within the divinatory series, as well as orthographic and interpretative issues.
Keywords
Ancient MesopotamiaDivinationPhysiognomic omensCuneiform joins
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1405268
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Title
Journal of Cuneiform Studies
Volume
73
ISSN
0022-0256
Issued
2021
From page
193
To page
209
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date available
2022-11-01
Date issued
2021
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