Evidence · Hurrian songs of Ugarit

The ascending reading rested on an assumed direction of string change that the text does not give.

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What it means

Key questionDoes the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?

3 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onAscending scale (Gurney 1968, Wulstan, Kilmer)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

Next steps 1

Read Vitale 1982 and Gurney 1994 in full and record the specific arguments from the Nabnitu string names for each direction.

~4 h

On: Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?

—not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

Sources 3

An Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp

Gurney 1968

SRC

Babylonian Music Again

Gurney 1994

SRC

La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale

Vitale 1982

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The ascending reading rested on an assumed direction of string change that the text does not give. [Evidence EVD0DEDZ6T99EVR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDZ6T99EVR

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dedz6t99evr,
  title     = {The ascending reading rested on an assumed direction of string change that the text does not give.},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDZ6T99EVR},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDZ6T99EVR}
}