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Tablets Attesting Akkadian Shuila Marduk 18

# CDLI ID Designation Accession # Museum # Collection Period Provenience Outline of Contents Transliterations Further Literature
15 P369041 KAR 059 VAT 08235 Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Marduk 2 (o1-25), rubric (o26) with ritual instructions (o27); catchline to SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Marduk 18 (o28); SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Ea 1a (o29-36, r1-22), rubric (r23) with ritual instructions (r24); catchline to SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Ea 2 (r25); colophon (r26-30) Mullo-Weir 1928: 112-113 (MS D, variants); Ebeling 1953: 8-11 (MS D, variants), 64-69; Mayer 1976: 442-446 (Ea 1a only); Oshima 2011: 328-336 (Marduk 2 only); Abusch and Schwemer 2016: 332-337 (Ea 1a only) Oshima 2011: 109-110
26 P369009 KAR 023 + 025 VAT 09823 + VAT 09737 Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Nabu 1 (o i 1-19), rubric (o i 20), with ritual instructions (o i 21-28), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Marduk 2 (o i 29-55), rubric (o i 56a), with ritual instructions (o i 56b), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Marduk 18 (o i 57-69, ii 1), rubric (o ii 2a), with ritual instructions (o ii 2b), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Marduk 19 (o ii 3-24), rubric (o ii 25), with ritual instructions (o ii 26), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Nabu 2 (o ii 27-60), rubric (o ii 61), with ritual instructions (o ii 62), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Sin 9 (r i 1ˊ-11ˊ), rubric (r i 12ˊ), with ritual instructions (r i 13ˊ-20), SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Enlil 1b (r i 21ˊ-33ˊ), unidentified ritual instructions (r ii 1ˊ-2ˊ), colophon (r ii 3ˊ-16ˊ = Hunger 1968, no. 235) Mullo-Weir 1928: 112-113 (MS C, variants); Ebeling 1953: 10-13, 64-65 (MS C, variants), 14-21; Abusch and Schwemer 2016: 342-346 (Nabu 2 only); Mayer 1976: 469-471 (Nabu 2 only); Oshima 2011: 383-385 (Marduk 18 only); Hätinen 2021: 474-475 (Sin 3 only) Oshima 2011: 110 joins this tablet to KAR 023. See his plates XXXIV-XXXVI; and see already Ebeling 1919: 325.


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