Nabnitu XXXII (U 3011), the lexical list of the nine strings

Tablet 32 of the lexical series Nabnitu, from Ur, whose musical section names the nine strings of the sammu in Sumerian and Akkadian and gives their numbering from front and back. It is what turns the string-number pairs of CBS 10996 into the named intervals of h.6. First read by Gurney; supplemented by a Philadelphia fragment published by Shaffer in 1981.

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A Music Tablet from Sippar(?): BM 65217 + 66616SRC
A New Musical Term in Ancient Mesopotamian MusicSRC
A Re-examination of Ancient Near-Eastern Music-Theoretical Tablets and Notation; Concerning a Tablaturisation for the Hurrian H6 Cuneiform TabletSRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Nabnitu XXXII (U 3011), the lexical list of the nine strings [Artifact ART0DEDS0WH6HGP]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDS0WH6HGP

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
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