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

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

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

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 question[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)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Ascending scale (Gurney 1968, Wulstan, Kilmer)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/answers/ANS0DEDXGYGQ3S6/ascending-scale-gurney-1968-wulstan-kilmer)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Next steps 1

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBJK95SB/does-the-babylonian-tuning-series-and-so-the-h-6-scale-run)

**—** 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](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJRDEAN34/an-old-babylonian-treatise-on-the-tuning-of-the-harp)

Gurney 1968

SRC

[Babylonian Music Again](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJS1S6NSG/babylonian-music-again)

Gurney 1994

SRC

[La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ8YBEZ3J/la-musique-sumero-accadienne-gamme-et-notation-musicale)

Vitale 1982

SRC

## Cite it

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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
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**EVD** 0DEDZ6T99EVR

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/sessions/SES0DEEADDRHVSZ/session-1-the-hurrian-songs-of-ugarit-seeded-corpus-readings) · 31 Oct 2026

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