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The Chicago Maqlû fragment (A 7876)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Tzvi Abusch  and
Daniel Schwemer
Tzvi Abusch
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Lown 313, Waltham MA 02454, USAabusch@brandeis.edu
Daniel Schwemer
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1 0XG, UKds11@soas.ac.uk
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Abstract

The fragment A 7876 (Oriental Institute, Chicago) occupies a special position among the cuneiform sources of the ritual Maqlû. The six-column tablet, inscribed in the Neo-Assyrian script of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, originally contained the complete text of the series with its nine canonical tablets. Taking into account the relevant duplicate manuscripts the article offers an annotated edition of this fragment and compares its style and format to other “large tablets” (dubgallu) of Babylonian literary texts.

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IRAQ , Volume 71 , 2009 , pp. 53 - 87
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2009

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