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Accounts Concerning Allocations of Provisions for Offerings in the Ningal-Temple At Ur
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
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In addition to the tablets which record offerings made to the major deities in the Ningal-temple during festivals, there are a few which similarly mention one of the minor deities, Ningal-á-anda, who was sometimes omitted from the previous lists (IV(d)). It would be interesting to discover how far these gifts were consumed by the priests themselves, as in the Old Testament ritual, and to what extent they might have sufficed for their maintenance. Unfortunately however, as we lack specific reference to the recipients and are unable to equate ancient values with a modern standard, we cannot solve this problem. The six tablets of group Vb are all very much alike. They first list butter, cheese, and dates as daily offerings and the same in smaller quantities as monthly special ones; an example is No. 58. The other documents combine these two chief issues (with figures correcdy increased); even No. 59, on which níg-díb-itu-da is omitted, is no exception since the figures show that both kinds are included. Often še-zibib and lubricating oil are added, and once (on No. 59) milk.
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page 171 note 1 Equivalents of old Babylonian measures are:— 1 gur equals 5 pan, 1 pan equals 6 sūtu (or bán), 1 sūtu equals 10 qa (or sìla) and 1 qa equals 60 shekels (or gín). The approximate equivalent of 1 qa is ½ litre or ⅞ pint. See also R.A. XVIII, 135 ff.Google Scholar, Naugebauer, and Sachs, , Mathematical Cuneiform Texts, 5 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 171 note 2 I do not believe that beer is meant here, because that is too different from all the other provisions drawn from the Gá-nun-maḫ.
page 174 note 1 Elsewhere written ezen si(sic)-nu(sic)-ru, but mȧ … seems to be the better reading.
page 177 note 1 Total of dates omitted by scribe: 1 gur 3 pan 1 sūtu 1⅓ qa.
page 188 note 1 Out texts indicate as months with 30 days: Airu, Dumuzu, Ulul, Araḫšamna and Ṭebet, i.e., the even-numbered months; and as months with 29 days: Nisan, Ab, (Tišrit), Kislim and Šabaṭ, i.e., the odd-numbered months.
page 190 note 1 Also é-lu-nu-um, e.g., No. 56, 13.
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