# Direction undetermined (Crocker, Gibson)

> Still possible: The texts fix only the relations between strings, and the direction is interchangeable or undetermined.

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# Direction undetermined (Crocker, Gibson)

The texts fix only the relations between strings, and the direction is interchangeable or undetermined.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- No further reading of the existing theory texts will settle the direction; only a new text will.

## What would rule it out

- A new reading of an existing text, accepted by Assyriologists, that fixes the direction.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[A re-examination of all four theory tablets concludes that the system is heptatonic with a direction the texts leave…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ70HF2MM/a-re-examination-of-all-four-theory-tablets-concludes-that)

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## The questions it answers

[Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBJK95SB/does-the-babylonian-tuning-series-and-so-the-h-6-scale-run)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Direction undetermined (Crocker, Gibson) [Answer ANS0DEDXHQWN618]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDXHQWN618
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