All Millard says is that Jakob-Rost checked his arrangement of the various fragments (shown on Plate 7) and that he disagreed with Millard's placement of VAT 11260B. Like Zawadzki, Millard puts this piece in the middle of col. X. The only other place it can go is the top of col. X. Note that Jakob-Rost has actually seen the fragment. Zawadzki and Millard have not.
Bel-tarsi-iluma in col. VII aligned with Nergal-ilaya in col. VI is not really possible unless you believe Nergal-nirka-da''in or Tab-belu should be omitted in col. VI.
The name Assur-taklak ends with a vertical wedge. Traces of that wedge are visible on VAT 11256, confirming that Bel-tarsi-iluma in col. VII aligns with Nergal-nirka-da''in in col. VI.
I cannot agree that col. VI omits Nergal-alik-pani or Bur-Ramman. VAT 11255 does not join to VAT 11254.
The partially preserved wedge before the "mati" (KUR) sign in Schroeder's drawing of col. VIII does agree with a writing of shakin. There are actually different ways of writing shakin in cuneiform. As for the amount of the width of column VIII, Pa-qa-ha shakin mati will be five signs yes, but "Tukulti-apil-Esarra sarru" is even more and yet it all fits in col. VIII. I don't think there is any problem here with Paqaha as a solution to the non-existent limmu "Adad-belu-KUR".
How can space on the edge of col. X possibly be available for the "Assur-gim" in the broken name "[Assur-gim]illi-tirra RA" but there not be space on the same edge for the beginning of a number like 542 or 572? That doesn't follow. Ungnad did see VAT 11260B. Zawadzki has not. So we must go with Ungnad's stated view that the number 542 will indeed fit without any problem whatsoever.
Hi Joe You wrote: As said I have not seen a copy of A3 nor have access to Millard. Is it possible to e-mail me scans of Millard’s handcopy (along with his reconstructed reverse of Cc in Plate 7)?... more
Hi Tory Firstly, thank you for the copies of Millard’s copies of A3 and KAV 21-24. Secondly, great illustrations you have placed on the forum superimposing your arrangement of limus onto copies of... more
Hi Joe When I turn to Schroeder’s 1920 explanation of Canon A3, here at the top of page VIII http://archive.org/stream/keilschrifttexte00schr#page/n13/mode/1up we see that he considered... more
Hi Tory Oops, mistakenly said A3 instead of KAV 21-24 (but that should have been obvious). (The following year in 1921 Schroeder shifted gears and proposed that KAV 21-24 col. X did not contain any... more
Hi Joe Almost forgot. What is the argument, is your insistence that the last limu mentioned in column IX was Aššur-gimillu-tere. The authors listed in my last post were designed to show that I can... more
Hi Joe, Tory and all, some remarks and questions about KAV 21-24. - I do not have Millard's book, what does he say about the collation by Jakob-Rost? In particular: - Zawadzki wrote that the very... more
Hi Werner I have an unpublished paper where I propose a mathematical notation [2]2 for 22x60=1320 at the end of a limu list on two tablets, starting with Su-Istar and a note [1 li-]mu (for 1000)... more
Hi Tory, I have a ruptured finger ligament, so please excuse the short answer. > All Millard says is that Jakob-Rost checked his arrangement of the various fragments (shown on Plate 7) and that he... more
Hi Werner Werner: I have a ruptured finger ligament, so please excuse the short answer. Yes of course. I hope things improve. TT: All Millard says is that Jakob-Rost checked his arrangement of the... more
Hi Joe I must say your construction is a good attempt. Using your method the copy of A3 you sent me does not appear to fit to conventional chronology. Still Johns say it is composed of some 10... more
Hi Tory Schroeder explicitly said ... that the limmu-list on KAV 21-24 ended with Aššur-gimilli-tirri but the exact date of this limmu is yet to be determined: "D. h. die Liste umfasste den Zeitraum... more
Hi Joe I was simply not sure which limu your were using to get your “conventional” 32 years. Strange that you suddenly became unsure. We were always talking about the number of years in KAV 21-24... more
Hi Joe Perhaps a graphic of the obverse of A3 will help. This layout has the limmu names in Roman letters overlaying the cuneiform script on the water marked fragment and extending into the missing... more
Hi Joe Perhaps a graphic of the reverse of A3 will help. This layout has the limmu names in Roman letters overlaying the cuneiform script on the water marked fragment and extending into the missing... more
Hi all, I could feel something was off. Another look at the fragment and I realized I put the limmus of Zeru-ibni and Tab-šar-Aššur on two separate lines when in fact A3 shows them on the same line.... more