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An Old Babylonian manuscript of the Weidner god-list from Tell Taban

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Daisuke Shibata
Daisuke Shibata*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (History and Anthropology), University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8571, Japan [email protected]
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Abstract

This article presents a fragment of an Old Babylonian clay tablet excavated in 2007 at Tell Taban, ancient Ṭābatum, near Hassake in Syria. The text is a common Babylonian scholarly composition known as the Weidner god-list. It is the oldest exemplar of this list so far recovered from north Mesopotamia and important for the history of the diffusion of Babylonian scholarship.

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IRAQ , Volume 71 , 2009 , pp. 33 - 42
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2009

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