Trace museum identifiers, ancient calendars, translations and the conventions needed for historical comparison.
Distinguish a work from its witnesses
The Sumerian CBS10673/CBS10867 join and Akkadian CBS13532 are separate flood witnesses. The source list’s generic Nippur label remains ambiguous. Their existing translation routes let reading begin while object identification, surviving signs and edition concordance remain visible research tasks.
An astronomical table needs its method
K.160, a Latin precession note, Ptolemy’s tables and HMML’s calendar manuscripts are distinct sources. A copy date is not a flood epoch. Before using a number in a historical clock, record the column heading, calendar convention, units, locality and any uncertainty in the reading.
Do not assign an unselected work to a convenient tablet
MUL.APIN has an identified English edition, but the proposed study still needs a chosen passage and the edition’s physical-witness references. The Astronomical Diaries similarly require a named tablet and volume. Those work-level tasks appear separately below and are excluded from the witness graph.
The assessments below identify the current research boundary. No full transcription, new manuscript translation or whole-corpus completion claim is implied.
Enūma Anu Enlil 63, omen 8 · witness C lines 1′–3′
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
K.160 is witness C. Its damaged opening entry belongs to omen 8, C lines 1′–3′. Table IV distributes the complete reconstructed sequence among several witnesses.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
Reiner and Pingree, Enūma Anu Enlil Tablet 63 (1975); opening translated omens use other witnesses.
Collate C’s surviving signs against the photograph, compare the other witnesses and investigate the untranslated outcome term. A modern calendar date or cosmic epoch has not been established.
Witness C in Reiner and Pingree’s 1975 comparison; it does not preserve the opening omens used in the first reading example.
Image or original access
Public source route
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The rendered edition pages, transcription pattern and tables were inspected; no independent tablet-photograph collation was completed. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
The composite labels D1–11 individually and marks damaged or uncertain material. Its segment numbering must be kept distinct from older continuous line systems.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
The museum supplies bibliography and identifies ETCSL 1.7.4 and composite Q000357.
Match the composite’s lines to the column V photograph and reconcile older continuous-line conventions. The missing lines cannot be supplied from later retellings. Poebel’s historical dating claims are not adopted as current chronology.
A damaged tablet with text on both sides; the catalogue identifies creation, cities, rulers and the flood narrative.
Image or original access
Public images linked
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The Oxford composite, translation, bibliography, Penn catalogue and Poebel’s historical report were inspected. Poebel places the episode in column V; exact photo-to-line collation remains pending. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
CBS13532 reverse 6′–9′ · translation on printed p. 78
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
The edition prints the damaged Akkadian for Ms. J / CBS13532 with reverse-line labels, allowing the selected instructions to be followed in a bounded unit.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
Wasserman 2020, Ms. J, pp. 77–79. Reverse 6′–9′ matched to the transcription and English translation on p. 78; photographic collation remains pending.
Compare the tablet photograph with the printed signs and retain the edition’s restorations. The generic source-list label “Nippur Tablet” remains ambiguous between separate Sumerian and Akkadian witnesses. No flood year is established.
This is a different candidate from the Sumerian CBS10673/CBS10867 join.
Image or original access
Public museum catalogue and edition
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The publisher’s transcription and English rendering were inspected. Photographic sign-by-sign collation remains pending. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
Composite lines 36–38 total five cities and eight kings; line 39 introduces the flood. Lines 40–45 move the kingship to Kish and name Jucur. WB is the default numerical source unless a variant note says otherwise.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
An item-level edition concordance has not yet been reviewed in this reading room.
Locate these lines on the prism’s individual face and column images, compare the underlying sign readings and preserve numerical variants. An absolute chronology requires independent dating evidence and an explicit conversion method.
Study the preserved inscription alongside its literary form and edition. Reign totals are not automatically elapsed historical years.
Image or original access
Public source route
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The Oxford transliteration, translation and witness bibliography were consulted with the Ashmolean’s object explanation. No independent cuneiform reading of the prism photograph is claimed. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
ff. 21ra–42va; star catalogue ff. 183r–194v; precession note f.194v. Content units need separate checks.
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
A passage-level transcription has not been verified by this mapping.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
An item-level edition concordance has not yet been reviewed in this reading room.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Identify passage and edition
Identify the passage, hand, date, transcription and existing translation. Do not equate this catalogued manuscript with the unidentified modern Venus label.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Treatise on astronomy: fol. 5rv; Excerpts on astronomy: fol. 7v, 9v-10r; Treatise on astronomy: fol. 8r-9v; Treatise on astronomy: fol. 10r-12r
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Astronomical treatise: content location not supplied
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Baseline review: 5 November 2026 · Selected Enoch language and image checks updated 9 November 2026 · English is the assessment language. This is a selection of 58 distinct witness/object leads, not a worldwide census or a completed translation audit. Physical losses and other-language evidence are recorded separately.
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