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Accounts Concerning Allocation of Provisions for Offerings in the Ningal-Temple at Ur
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
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The fifth volume of Ur Excavations, Texts, recently published, contains under nos. 732–790 a series of 57 tablets, all of which belonged to the archives of the Gá-nun-maḫ, the store-house of the Ningal-temple, and deal with materials issued for offerings to various major and minor gods and at various festivals. I have added to these documents a few numbers which were rejected from publication, but may be useful to strengthen the evidence; these are introduced by their excavation numbers, e.g., U6393, U6395, etc.; furthermore, I added from Ur Excavations, Texts, vol. III, published by Legrain, two numbers (236 and 282) which in fact are undated, but the persons mentioned in them, i.e., mār Nadi and Warad-Nannar, occur in other documents which can be dated to years of Abisare and Rim-Sin.
All in all, there are 65 texts covering a space of 100 years from the 19th year of Gungunum to the 19th year of Rim-Sin; there are hardly any documents after Sumu-ilum, as there is only one tablet which can be dated to Ṣilli-Adad, one to Warad-Sin, and three to Rim-Sin. Even the 60 tablets covering the 49 years from Gungunum to the end of Sumu-ilum form only a very small remnant of those which were really drawn up within those years.
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page 88 note 1 See Legrain's, remarks in Ur Excavations, Texts, vol. 111, 206, no. 236Google Scholar. I refer to this volume as “Ur III” and to my own fifth volume as “Ur V”, which contains cuneiform copies and descriptive catalogues of the texts. In this article we have offered, in addition, transliterations and translations.
page 89 note 1 Should this be a pseudo-ideogram for zibū, zibibanu “caraway seed”? cf. D.A.B 71.
page 91 note 1 Cf. Warad-Sin, date formula of his 3rd year.
page 92 note 1 Perhaps erased.
page 95 note 1 Cf. no. 44.
page 102 note 1 The figures for dates of this tablet are not correct; in l. 13 we have probably to read 3 sutu; and in l. 21 we have to restore zú-lum; but even so, the total in l. 26 is by 20 gin too low.
page 103 note 1 These divine names are unknown so far; they do not occur in Deimel's Pantheon; in Ur III (p. 40) only one occurrence of Nin-ki-ùr-ra is registered; but cf. Oppenheim, , Eames Collection Catalogue, p. 210Google Scholar, where En-ki-ùr-ra is listed.
page 109 note 1 The year-formula used on this tablet seems to be unknown; but as the owner of the seal put on the document occurs again and again in early years of Abisare, the formula may be identical with one of the 2nd or 4th to 7th years of Abisare.
page 111 note 1 For this name cf. also No. 32. With regard to the rather frequent name A-ḫa-kal-la, A-ḫa-kal-lim, A-ḫi-kal-la, ŠEŠ-kal-la, etc., this name is evidently to be read A-aḫ-kalla; for the form of aḫ see Labat, Manuel, no. 398.
page 113 note 1 U 5-kú seems to mean a banquet at which a certain dish was eaten (kú).
page 113 note 2 It may be noted that uzùg means “a prostitute”
page 114 note 1 Cf. no. 41.
page 120 note 1 Yellow (or green) milk, i.e., probably “skimmed milk”.
page 121 note 1 In l.13, 3 sūtu (cf. nos. 57 & 58) is apparently to be restored; this would result in l.21 to 1 gur 3 pan 1 sutu ½ qa, but as 1 sutu and ½ are the same signs, one has been erroneously omitted.