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Texts from Tell Haddad and elsewhere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

F. N. H. Al-Rawi
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This article presents a number of short, but important, inscriptions found on objects excavated at Tell Haddad and elsewhere. Texts nos. 1–6 are from Tell Haddad or the neighbouring site of Tell al-Sib, no. 7 is from Sippar and nos. 8–10 are of unknown provenance.

1. Inscription of Arīm-Līm of Mê-Turan. IM 124744; Haddad 577 (Figs. 1–2)

This inscription, written on a stone foundation tablet re-used as a door socket (overall dimensions 36 × 22 × 13·8 cm), was excavated at Tell Haddad, out of context near the Neo-Assyrian buildings in Area 3, Level 1, but derives originally from the early Old Babylonian period. The text was made available some years ago to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project of the University of Toronto, in whose system it is catalogued as E4.16.1. A transliteration and translation has been published by D. Frayne, Old Babylonian Period (RIME 4), p. 700.

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IRAQ , Volume 56 , 1994 , pp. 35 - 43
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1994 

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References

1 For the excavations at Tell Haddad (OB Mê-Turan, later Mê-Turna or Mê-Turnat) see Iraq 43 (1981), pp. 177 f.Google Scholar; Hanoon, Na'il, Sumer 40, pp. 70 f.Google Scholar; Iraq 47 (1985), p. 220 Google Scholar, and the bibliography given there (note also Sumer, Index to Vols. 33–45, p. 30 Google Scholar). For a general survey of the Sumerian literary tablets found at the site, in OB levels of Areas I and II, and the publication of the bilingual hemerologies H 77 and H 83, an Akkadian medical text, H 170, and an Akkadian fable, H unnumbered, see now Cavigneaux, A. and Al-Rawi, F. N. H., Iraq 55 (1993), pp. 91–105 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Other OB tablets include a tablet of laws, Al-Rawi, , Sumer 38 (1982), pp. 117–20Google Scholar: H 116; an inventory of the jewellery of Adad, Al-Rawi, and Black, J. A., Sumer 39 (1983), pp. 137–43Google Scholar: H 514; a perfect mathematical tablet from Area II, Room 10, published by Al-Rawi, and Roaf, M., Sumer 43 (1984), pp. 175–218 Google Scholar: H 104; three fragments of the Sumerian Georgics ( Cavigneaux, , Aula Or 9 (1991), pp. 37–46: H 110, H 139, H 178Google Scholar; and two manuscripts of Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven ( Cavigneaux, and Al-Rawi, , RA 87 (1993), pp. 97–129: H 144 and H 160Google Scholar). Texts from the NA levels so far published are brick inscriptions of Aššurbanipal, Rashid, F., Sumer 37 (1981), p. 80 Google Scholar (Arabic section); and manuscripts of Erra II, Al-Rawi, and Black, , Iraq 51 (1989), pp. 111–22: H 319 = IM 121299CrossRefGoogle Scholar; EAE XIV, Al-Rawi, and George, A. R., AfO 38–9 (1991–1992), p. 70f.: H 352 = IM 121332Google Scholar; and Enūma eliš VI, Al-Rawi and Black, JCS forthcoming. Other tablets from the site have been the subject of the unpublished dissertations of Akat, Mustafa, “The Old Babylonian tablets from Me-Turan (Tell Al-Sieb and Tell Haddad)”, University of Glasgow, 1983 Google Scholar; and Mohammed, A. K., “Studies in unpublished cuneiform texts from the Diyala region, Himrin basin”, Baghdad University, 1985 Google Scholar. The texts published here are presented by permission of the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage and the excavators. Thanks are due to A. R. George and W. G. Lambert for help with the preparation of this article, and to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq for financial assistance.

2 Note that the museum number given there is IM 95920.

3 See George, A. R., House Most High, gazetteer entry 1020 Google Scholar.

4 Cf. Iraq 47 (1985), p. 220 Google Scholar. I am grateful to Khalid Salim Isma‘il for providing additional information about this object.

5 See Nougayrol, J., JCS 21 (1967), pp. 232 fGoogle Scholar.

6 See now Al-Jadir, Walid, “Le Quartier de l'É.babbar de Sippar”, in De Meyer, L. and Gasche, H. (eds.), Mésopotamie et Elam=CRRA 36, pp. 193–6Google Scholar, and, for earlier bibliography, Iraq 52 (1990), p. 149 1 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.