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Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2013

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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 2012

The Electronic Babylonian Literature (eBL) team has achieved several milestones in 2022. First, the Fragmentarium has now reached the size of 21,200 cuneiform tablets, totalling over 300,000 lines of text. Secondly, the Corpus has been greatly enlarged with editions of several texts, such as the Hymn to Ninurta as Savior, the Great Prayer to Nabû, and particularly the Epic of Gilgameš. Thirdly, a sophisticated string-alignment algorithm, based on the python-alignment library, has been fine-tuned for cuneiform script and implemented. The algorithm has been run several times, and has found several matchings that had escaped the attention of humans, such as a new fragment of the latest datable manuscript of Gilgameš edited in no. 27, text no. 2. The growth of the manuscript base of texts is important in its own right, but it also has a larger significance for the understanding of Mesopotamian literature, since it contributes decisively to its contextualization. The importance of recovering the context in a tradition in which the authors of most texts are still unknown, and indeed in which the date of composition of almost all works of literature is impossible to establish, can hardly be overstated. In this respect, the pièce de résistance of this collection is constituted by T. Mitto's new edition of the Catalogue of Texts and Authors (no. 26). The edition is informed by several new fragments and includes two pieces of a hitherto unsuspected 106 Enrique Jiménez et al. Babylonian version of it, which shows that the Catalogue, or a composition akin to it, circulated in Babylonia in the last few centuries before the turn of the eras. Even more important for the recovery of the context of Babylonian literature are the newly established identifications of several of the incipits given in the Catalogue: the progress made since the last critical edition of the text (Lambert 1962) is considerable. New authors can now be recovered from oblivion, and their oeuvre studied in some detail. Three compositions, all of them identifiable, can now be credited to the scholar Rīmūt-Gula (Mitto, no. 25), a fact that allows us, perhaps for the first time, to study the style of a Babylonian author across several of his works. The new sections of the Catalogue, together with several new textual discoveries, afford us a context also for the Great Hymn to Ištar: it was probably authored, according to the Babylonian tradition, by the elusive scholar Aba-Ninnu-dari (Jiménez-Rozzi, no. 32), homonymous or perhaps identical with the scholar called AΒiqar in the Uruk List of Kings and Sages. New readings of old manuscripts also provide evidence for a possible serialization of Bullussa-rabi's Hymn to Gula in first-millennium Babylonia (Földi, no. 31). *** More fragments are identified almost daily, so inevitably some of the notes edited in previous instalments of this series need be supplemented. A. Hätinen adds several new fragments of Ludlul (no. 28) to the already published ones in Hätinen 2020 and in the introduction to the third instalment. G. Rozzi edits additional fragments of the Great Šamaš Hymn (no. 29), to be added to those that appeared in the preceding collection (Rozzi 2021b). Zs. J. Földi furthers the textual basis of Bullussarabi's Gula Hymn (no. 30), thus continuing the labor started in Földi 2019b. *** The present collection also includes notes by three external collaborators: J. Peterson edits an important new manuscript of the Emesal Vocabulary (no. 33); B. Baragli supplements her recent edition of the Kiutu prayers (no. 34) and edits, together with D. Shibata, another tablet that may well belong to the same genre. Moreover, D. Schwemer edits in two important contributions (pp. 203-294 of the present issue) many new fragments and manuscripts of Maqlû and other anti-witchcraft texts, some of them identified by the eBL team. All articles have been read by all team members. It is a pleasure to acknowledge our gratitude to the editorial team of KASKAL, in particular to L. Milano, P. Corò, and S. Ermidoro, for their patience, support, and technical assistance. New tablets are published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum and of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Jiménez, no. 27, no. 1).

NABU, 2021

(JAPAN) 41) Miscellaneous notes on the Middle Babylonian documents-Previously, the Middle Babyloniann aklu documents were treated in my dissertation (Murai 2018). My further considerations, remarks less relevant to the main theme of my dissertation, I am including herein. 1)

Five issues pertaining to the history of Babylonia in the Chaldean and early Achaemenid periods (the so-called "long 6th century BCE") are discussed below. The first two concern the connections of Babylonia with the West, viz. the Levant and Egypt. It is argued here that Adad of Hallab, who was worshipped in Borsippa, refers to the storm deity of Aleppo, and not to a deity of a small north Babylonian settlement as was suspected earlier. The subsequent section discusses the incorporation of the Egyptian prisoners of war in the workforce of the Babylonian . = son; w. = witness; wi. = wife. Images of the tablets are found on the web: CBS = http://cdli.ucla.edu, museum no. in Alphabets, Texts and Artifacts; Studies Presented to Benjamin Sass temples. They were organized in decuries like the indigenous and other workmen. The third section is another step in my pursuit of the ever-increasing material concerning the Chaldeo-Arameans. They emerged as a significant population group in Babylonia during the first millennium BCE alongside the long-established Babylonian urbanites. The penultimate section is about a new chief administrator of Esaggila, the temple of the capital of Babylon, and an unknown stage in the career of the future king Neriglissar. The last section contains information about prices of several items.

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Bibliotheca orientalis 50 (1993) 425-433

This volume contains editions of literary fragments from the Middle Babylonian period (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) kept in the Hilprecht-Collection in Jena. Presented in full are The Epic of Gulkišar (HS 1885+), a Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara (HS 1886), a Ceremony in the Ekur (HS 1902), and the Games Text (HS 1893), with introductions, transliterations, translations, philological commentaries, hand copies and photographs. All texts are of special interest; The Epic of Gulkišar is a Middle Babylonian copy narrating the heroic deeds of its eponymous Sealand I king against Samsuditana, the last king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara portrays the otherwise poorly known deity Pa(p)nigara, the Ceremony in the Ekur tells us of an hitherto unknown ceremony carried out at the Ekur temple in Nippur, and the Games Text is unique in the fact that it enumerates a great variety of children’s games set in daily life Babylon.