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    Maqlû - selected manuscripts

    Maqlû – Selected Manuscripts

    Maqlû, tablet V, ms. DD: K 7242+; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. Image © Trustees of the British Museum

    A selection of the more than 180 manuscripts of the ritual Maqlû are presented here in hand-copy as downloadable pdf-files.

    All hand-copies were prepared by Daniel Schwemer; the scale of all drawings is 3:2. The sigla of the manuscripts are those introduced and used by D. Schwemer and T. Abusch.

    Publication of the manuscripts from the Kuyunjik Collection of the British Museum by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum; publication of A 7876 by permission of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

    Photos of the tablets in the British Museum can be found at The British Museum Collection online.

    Maqlû: fragment of a manuscript that contained all nine canonical tablets (ms. m)
    A 7876; Assyria; 8th–7th cent. BC
    downloads: overview; obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet I (ms. B)
    K 43 + 142 + 2601 + Sm 1433; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet II (ms. H)
    K 2455 + 2515 + 3427 + 3936 + 6325 + 7183 + 8054 + 11793 + 12923 + Sm 1688; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet III (ms. M)
    K 2728 + 8055 + 11541 + 19917 + Sm 1768 + 1776; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet IV (ms. G)
    K 2454 + 2984 + 3178 + 7616 (+) K 2976; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse; obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet V (ms. K)
    K 2544 + 3470 + 5071 + 16948 + 17166 + Sm 125 + 2191; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet VI (ms. F)
    K 2420 + 2446 (+) K 2595 + 2978 + 2982; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse; obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet VII (ms. O)
    K 2950 + 2966 + 81-7-27, 152; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû tablet VIII (ms. R)
    K 2981 + 3991; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse

    Maqlû ritual tablet (ms. D)
    K 2385 + 3331 + 3584 + 3645 + 7274 + 7586 + 8033 + 11603; Nineveh, Library of Ashurbanipal; 7th cent. BC
    downloads: obverse; reverse