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A Seleucid Legal Text

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

In the Centenary Supplement to this Journal, pp. 41–8, Mr. G. R. Driver edited a Neo-Babylonian tablet concerned with the sale of a GÍR.LAL-priesthood, and made some excellent observations on this class of transaction. In what follows there will be frequent occasion to refer to that article.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1925

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References

page 659 note 1 But see commentary under GÍR.LAL-ú-tú.

page 660 note 1 The numbers in thick type are those of the lines of the transcription.

page 660 note 2 Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts.

page 662 note 1 According to Professor Langdon.

page 664 note 1 University of Pennsylvania. The Museum. Publications of the Babylonian Section.

page 664 note 2 The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Series A : Cuneiform Texts.

page 664 note 3 Cp. Clay, Morg. II, p. 19.

page 665 note 1 According to Professor Langdon.

page 665 note 2 So far as I know.

page 665 note 3 See note on 1. 17.

page 665 note 4 Lit. “together with ”.

page 666 note 1 See p. 663.

page 666 note 2 See Kohler and Peiser, Aus dem Babylonischen Rechtsleben, I, p. 1 f.

page 666 note 3 The išqu is a species under the genus zittu.

page 666 note 4 The contract is dated in Kislev.

page 667 note 1 See Meissner, Babylonien und Assyrien, II, 395.

page 667 note 1 More accurately : “the (percentage on the) share.”

page 668 note 1 Augapfel, Babylonische Bechtsurkunden.

page 668 note 2 Brünnow, A Classified List.

page 668 note 3 See Augapfel, BR. p. 111 a.

page 669 note 1 According to Langdon.

page 669 note 2 And i-pal-là ḫ, 20, 24.

page 670 note 1 Clay treats it as a derivative of zâzu “to divide ”. This is obviously a slip on his part.

page 670 note 2 Cp. also Morg. II, 50, 17.

page 670 note 3 Disproving Clay's treatment of the word as Sumerian : ḪA.RA.RA = ragâniu.

page 671 note 1 Cp. i-Šal-ṭu-ma = išallatuma Morg. II, 53, 7 ; and ta-šal-tu 6, 4. June, 1925.