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Many questions remain about the early distribution, transmission, and stabilization of the Mesopotamian celestial omen traditions that coalesced to form the first-millennium series Enuma Anu Enlil (EAE).1 Despite the long evolution behind EAE, evident in the structure and scope of its various recensions, sources from the second millennium are sparse at best.2 Claims about the existence of a unified second-millennium Proto-EAE notwithstanding, only a handful of Old Babylonian manuscripts have thus far been identified, and Middle Babylonian data are fewer still.3 In 1. I am grateful to Barry Eichler and Steve Tinney for permission to publish UM 29-15-393, which is currently housed in the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. The curators' welcoming policy toward the collection made it possible for me to identify and study this extraordinary piece. It is also a pleasure for me to acknowledge Francesca Rochberg, Jeremiah Peterson, Paul Delnero, and Kevin McGeough for their critiques and suggestions at various stages. I presented a version of this work at the 216th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Seattle on
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- Author
- Matthew T. Rutz
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)