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A Topography of Babylon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. E. V. D. Meer
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Fragments of a cuneiform description of Babylon, containing the names of the town, its temples, and gates, have been published by Prof. E. Unger in W.V.D.O.G. XLVIII, pl. 82 and in his book Die Stadt Babylon, 229 ff. Notes on these tablets have been published by B. Landsberger in Z.A. XLI. 287 ff. There are seven fragments: 1. V.A.T. 13101 (Photo W.V.D.O.G. XLVII, pl.82);2. V.A.T.554(Reisner, Hymne No.5, Photo W.V.D.O.G.XLVIII, pl. 82); 3. B.M. 34878 (Photo W.V.D.O.G. XLVIII, pl. 82); 4. V.A.T. 13200 (Matouš, L.T.B.A. 1, No. 72, Photo Z.A. XLI, pl. VIII); 5. K. 3089 (P.S.B.A. XXII (1900), 559); 6. V.A.T. 401 (Photo Z.A. XLI, pl. VII); 7. K. 15122 (King, Suppl.).

The three tablets of the Ashmolean 1924–846, 1924–810, 1924–849 are partly duplicates, but fill large gaps. 1924–849 is a duplicate of V.A.T. 13101, col. I. V.A.T. 13101, col. I, fills the gap in 1924–849, obv. It contains the various names of Babylon, and according to its colophon it is an extract of the first tablet of the series, TIN-TIR(ki). This proves that V.A.T. 13101 is not the fifth tablet of the series TIN-TIR(ki), but that its colophon means— as B. Landsberger has already suggested in Z.A. XLI. 288—that five tablets have been written on a single one. V.A.T. 13101 does not give the whole series, but only extracts of five tablets.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1938 , pp. 55 - 64
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1938

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page 55 note 1 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.1.

page 55 note 2 V.A.T. 13101, very clearly qa.

page 55 note 3 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.2.

page 55 note 4 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.3.

page 55 note 5 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.4.

page 55 note 6 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.5.

page 55 note 7 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.6.

page 55 note 8 B.A. v. 656, 16.

page 56 note 1 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.7.

page 56 note 2 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.8.

page 56 note 3 Unger reads maḫ-ra-ti; 1924–846 has very clearly iḫ-ra-ri.

page 56 note 4 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.9.

page 56 note 5 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.10.

page 56 note 6 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.11.

page 56 note 7 par-ṣi-šu-nu šu-qu-ru-tu pil-lu-du-šu-nu nu-us-su-qu-tu. Their divine worships are precious and their cults are splendid. V.R. 62, 51.

page 56 note 8 Restored by V.A.T. 13101.12.

page 56 note 9 V.A.T. 13101 ti.

page 56 note 10 gù-du 7 phonetically interchanged with gú-dù.

page 56 note 11 kit-mu-ru amass. Thureau-Dangin, Huit.Camp., Sargon, 257.

page 57 note 1 GIŠ-SÙ; see Z.A. 9.221, 23, 25. GIŠ-SÙ = alālu, tube, instrument of music. Root is alālu, to play, to make music. Hence alālu, to jubilate.

page 57 note 2 alu ki-di-nu, asylum, cf. I.R. 49, iv. 18. Babil āl kidini, Babylon, the town of protection, the asylum.

page 57 note 3 Cf. K.A.R.. 309.5.

page 57 note 4 The reading akit is a guess only. It is suggested by ASS. 4125. Rev. 4, Ebeling, Tod und Leben No. 5, [·]bēlu šá ina á-ki-it ina qa-bal tam-tim áš-bu. tamtu is tiamat. Cf. T.C. vi. 47. Obv. ASS. 4125 is a hymn to Marduk. It contains the names of Marduk and resembles Enuma eliš. Tablet IV. Marduk dwells in Tiamat during the Aki tu feast in Tišrit. The only known place at present where ZUR-KAR occurs is Burrows, 42. It is a pre-Sargonic name of a month.

page 58 note 1 K.A.V. 42, obv. 12.

page 58 note 2 K.A.V. 42, obv. II.

page 58 note 3 K. 3089 be-lit.

page 58 note 4 K. 3089 bit. This proves that the reading is not mit.

page 58 note 5 V.A.T. 401 has máš-da-ri. The sign on 1924–846 looks like kun.

page 58 note 6 K. 3089 iluistar.

page 58 note 7 K. 3089 MAḪ.

page 59 note 1 K.A.V. 43, Rev. 28.

page 59 note 2 En-lil, Deimel, Pantheon, 1715.

page 59 note 3 1924–846 has sal instead of gu.

page 59 note 4 K.A.V. 42, Rev. 20. 1924–846 has the sign bur, instead of šuk for zik?