{ "title": "Flood, kingship and human time · bounded research dossier", "reviewed": "2026-11-05", "scope": "Human timekeeping; not the age of the universe. Edited passage review; no independent full photograph collation.", "cases": [ { "id": "ct46-5", "title": "CT 46, 5 · a joined Dynastic Chronicle witness", "identifier": "P285813 · K.11261 + K.11624 + K.12054", "status": "Object identity and selected edition-line concordance checked", "finding": "CDLI classifies this as the Dynastic Chronicle, ABC 18. Its joined accession numbers agree with eBL. The British Museum links K.11261 to the same CDLI record and a three-object join group.", "reading": "The inspected eBL main record presents transliteration lines 1′–19′. The city and ruler sequence includes Bad-tibira, Sippar, Larak, Shuruppak and Ziusudra, with losses and supplied readings marked. These are edited readings, not a new independent decipherment.", "translation": "Glassner’s publisher-hosted edition treats the Babylonian Royal Chronicle as no. 3: introduction p. 126, transliteration p. 128, English p. 129 and continuation pp. 130–131. This is an edition reading across the textual tradition, not an English translation newly collated against this individual photograph.", "gap": "The selected edited-text concordance below maps eBL 7′–14′ to Glassner i22–29. Next collate the photograph and damaged reign figures; no complete numerical total is preserved in the selected summary. A discrepant older middle-number reference remains a bibliographical check.", "sources": [ "cdli", "ebl", "ebl-part", "bm", "glassner" ] }, { "id": "stvc87b", "title": "STVC 87 B · a published reassignment", "identifier": "Fragment B of STVC 87 / CBS14109", "status": "Later published identification located", "finding": "Oxford’s older bibliography retains a tentative Flood-story association. Veldhuis’s 2001 appendix identifies fragment B as part of Bilgames’ Death and reports a join to the main Nippur source, at its fourth column.", "reading": "The published placement is the passage in which Enki recounts the flood, corresponding to M157–162. Its flood subject matter belongs within a different composition.", "translation": "The article supplies a new translation of Bilgames’ Death and a source-language appendix. The exact English correspondence for each surviving sign on fragment B remains to be collated.", "gap": "Verify the current museum record and photograph for fragment B, then align its lines with the joined source. Retain the older proposal as research history rather than an unresolved identification.", "sources": [ "oxford-flood", "veldhuis" ] }, { "id": "nippur-flood", "title": "The Sumerian Flood tablet · the physical comparison", "identifier": "CBS10673 + CBS10867 · P265876", "status": "Object and translation routes located; photograph mapping open", "finding": "Penn identifies a Sumerian flood tablet from Nippur, joined with CBS10867, with a manufacture date of about 1650 BCE. Its record provides thirteen object images.", "reading": "Our existing study locates the storm and returning-sun episode in ETCSL Segment D1–11. The column V photograph-to-edition match remains open.", "translation": "An English reading is already linked through the existing passage study. The research task concerns exact surviving lines and joins, not the assumption that the work has never been translated.", "gap": "Compare both inscribed sides and the join with edition line conventions. Separate lost clay, unreadable signs, editorial restoration and uninspected coverage.", "sources": [ "penn", "oxford-flood" ] }, { "id": "king-list", "title": "The King List · count the stated numbers carefully", "identifier": "AN1923.444 · source WB in the ETCSL apparatus", "status": "Named witness and composite reading located", "finding": "The Ashmolean identifies a four-sided prism, with two columns per side. Its account combines legendary and historical material in a political presentation of succession.", "reading": "ETCSL’s composite gives eight pre-flood kings in five cities and a stated total of 241,200 years. That total must remain attached to its edition and witness selection.", "translation": "The public English composite and our existing flood-boundary passage are linked. They are not an independently established elapsed chronology of human timekeeping.", "gap": "Compare individual reign readings and variants. Establish the ancient unit and the grounds for any proposed conversion before interpreting the count as precession.", "sources": [ "king-list", "ash" ] } ], "selected_concordance": { "status": "Edited-text sequence checked; photographic sign collation pending", "rows": [ { "ebl_line": "7′", "glassner_column_line": "i22", "topic": "Sippar → Larak" }, { "ebl_line": "8′", "glassner_column_line": "i23", "topic": "Larak ruler and partly restored reign figure" }, { "ebl_line": "9′", "glassner_column_line": "i24", "topic": "Larak dynastic summary; damaged numerical reading" }, { "ebl_line": "10′", "glassner_column_line": "i25", "topic": "Larak → Shuruppak" }, { "ebl_line": "11′", "glassner_column_line": "i26", "topic": "Ubar-Tutu entry" }, { "ebl_line": "12′", "glassner_column_line": "i27", "topic": "Ziusudra, son of Ubar-Tutu" }, { "ebl_line": "13′", "glassner_column_line": "i28", "topic": "Two Shuruppak kings; missing reign total" }, { "ebl_line": "14′", "glassner_column_line": "i29", "topic": "Five cities, nine kings; missing overall years" } ] }, "clock_conventions": [ { "anchor_bce": 2095, "elapsed_2026": 4120, "ordinal_2026": 4121, "label": "Main clock explanation · proposed Ur III reference" }, { "anchor_bce": 2900, "elapsed_2026": 4925, "ordinal_2026": 4926, "label": "Additional clock scenario · provisional archaeological candidate" }, { "anchor_bce": 3975, "elapsed_2026": 6000, "ordinal_2026": 6001, "label": "Additional clock scenario · chosen 6000-elapsed-year convention" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "cdli", "title": "CDLI · CT 46, 5 / P285813", "url": "https://cdli.earth/artifacts/285813", "review": "Joined object identifiers, catalogue classification and source links." }, { "id": "ebl", "title": "eBL · K.11261 fragment edition", "url": "https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/K.11261", "review": "Main record consulted: joins, edition references and transliteration lines 1′–19′." }, { "id": "ebl-part", "title": "eBL · K.11624", "url": "https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/K.11624", "review": "Companion record consulted: dated join notes and bibliographical routes." }, { "id": "older-reference", "title": "KeiBi · older bibliographical reference for the joined fragments", "url": "https://vergil.uni-tuebingen.de/keibi/Record/KEI00080544/Details", "review": "The catalogue abstract gives K.11264 as a middle number; current CDLI and eBL records give K.11624. Check the original publication before explaining the discrepancy." }, { "id": "bm", "title": "British Museum · K.11261", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-11261", "review": "Museum identity and joined tablet group G12873, comprising three objects." }, { "id": "glassner", "title": "Glassner · Mesopotamian Chronicles, publisher-hosted edition", "url": "https://www.sbl-site.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Glassner.pdf", "review": "2004 English edition, edited by Benjamin R. Foster. Printed pp. 126–131; PDF pp. 146–151. Commentary, transliteration and translation are distinct." }, { "id": "oxford-flood", "title": "Oxford ETCSL · Flood bibliography", "url": "https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/b174.htm", "review": "Older tentative associations for CT 46, 5 and STVC 87 B; consult later scholarship." }, { "id": "veldhuis", "title": "Niek Veldhuis · The Solution of the Dream: A New Interpretation of Bilgames’ Death", "url": "https://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/jcs/53/veldhuis.pdf", "review": "Journal of Cuneiform Studies 53 (2001), appendix pp. 146–147 / PDF pp. 14–15. Published identification and join for STVC 87 B." }, { "id": "penn", "title": "Penn Museum · Flood tablet CBS10673", "url": "https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/97591", "review": "Object, CBS10867 join, photographs, manufacture date and bibliography." }, { "id": "king-list", "title": "Oxford ETCSL · Sumerian King List translation", "url": "https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr211.htm", "review": "Composite reading and pre-flood reign total. A composite is distinct from one physical copy." }, { "id": "ash", "title": "Ashmolean · Sumerian King List AN1923.444", "url": "https://ashmolean.web.ox.ac.uk/sumerian-king-list", "review": "Physical prism and explanation of its literary and political setting." }, { "id": "thesis", "title": "Babylon · The Great Flood thesis", "url": "https://www.babylonencyclopedia.com/the-great-flood", "review": "Babylon’s authored argument. The linked eleven-page Audible Edition was read; Chapter Four guides the questions here." }, { "id": "clock", "title": "Babylon Cosmic Clock", "url": "https://clock.babylonencyclopedia.com/", "review": "Served page and explanatory text reviewed 5 November 2026. Human-era conventions are distinguished from astronomical measurements." } ] }