Frances Reynolds is the Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. After completing her BA in Classics and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology (Assyriology), she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and worked as a State Archives of Assyria Editor at the University of Helsinki for three years. After teaching and carrying out research in Assyriology at a range of universities in the UK, she began her permanent appointment at the University of Oxford in 2006.

Reynolds should be congratulated, and readers should be pleased, to see this important text finally elucidated in print.

• Frontmatter Bibliographical Abbreviations Selected Conventions INTRODUCTION 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Mu%s=ezib family 4. Language and orthography EDITION Table of manuscripts Previous publications Calendar treatise: composite edition MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition Calendar treatise: manuscript score COMMENTARY § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)] § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)] § 3 i 8'-23': Sim=anu § 4 i 24'-35': Du'=uzu § 5 ii 1-3: [Du'=uzu] or [Abu (day x)] § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul=ulu] § 8 iii 9-15: Ta%sr=itu day 6 § 9 iii 16-26: Ta%sr=itu day 8 § 10 iii 27-30: Ta%sr=itu day 13 § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl=imu (day x)] § 13 iv 1-41: .Teb=etu § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] Endmatter References General index Selective index of texts and publications CUNEIFORM TEXTS Plates 1-8

Frances Reynolds is the Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. After completing her BA in Classics and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology (Assyriology), she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and worked as a State Archives of Assyria Editor at the University of Helsinki for three years. After teaching and carrying out research in Assyriology at a range of universities in the UK, she began her permanent appointment at the University of Oxford in 2006.

Reynolds should be congratulated, and readers should be pleased, to see this important text finally elucidated in print.

• Frontmatter Bibliographical Abbreviations Selected Conventions INTRODUCTION 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Mu%s=ezib family 4. Language and orthography EDITION Table of manuscripts Previous publications Calendar treatise: composite edition MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition Calendar treatise: manuscript score COMMENTARY § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)] § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)] § 3 i 8'-23': Sim=anu § 4 i 24'-35': Du'=uzu § 5 ii 1-3: [Du'=uzu] or [Abu (day x)] § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul=ulu] § 8 iii 9-15: Ta%sr=itu day 6 § 9 iii 16-26: Ta%sr=itu day 8 § 10 iii 27-30: Ta%sr=itu day 13 § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl=imu (day x)] § 13 iv 1-41: .Teb=etu § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] Endmatter References General index Selective index of texts and publications CUNEIFORM TEXTS Plates 1-8

Frances Reynolds is the Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. After completing her BA in Classics and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology (Assyriology), she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and worked as a State Archives of Assyria Editor at the University of Helsinki for three years. After teaching and carrying out research in Assyriology at a range of universities in the UK, she began her permanent appointment at the University of Oxford in 2006.

Reynolds should be congratulated, and readers should be pleased, to see this important text finally elucidated in print.

• Frontmatter Bibliographical Abbreviations Selected Conventions INTRODUCTION 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Mu%s=ezib family 4. Language and orthography EDITION Table of manuscripts Previous publications Calendar treatise: composite edition MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition Calendar treatise: manuscript score COMMENTARY § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)] § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)] § 3 i 8'-23': Sim=anu § 4 i 24'-35': Du'=uzu § 5 ii 1-3: [Du'=uzu] or [Abu (day x)] § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul=ulu] § 8 iii 9-15: Ta%sr=itu day 6 § 9 iii 16-26: Ta%sr=itu day 8 § 10 iii 27-30: Ta%sr=itu day 13 § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl=imu (day x)] § 13 iv 1-41: .Teb=etu § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] Endmatter References General index Selective index of texts and publications CUNEIFORM TEXTS Plates 1-8