{"title":"Iqqur īpuš at Tell Tayinat","authors":"J. Lauinger","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0229","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides editions of the tablets and fragments inscribed with the Mesopotamian scholarly series Iqqur īpuš that were found at the Neo-Assyrian provincial capital of Tell Tayinat (ancient Kullaniya) by the Tayinat Archaeological Project in 2009. The editions are accompanied by a brief discussion of the tablets' tabular format and archaeological context.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"229 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70749481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agricultural Economy and Taxation in the Sealand I Kingdom","authors":"Odette Boivin","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Administrative texts from the Sealand I kingdom, a second-millennium polity that emerged in the southern Mesopotamian area lost to Babylonian control during Samsu-iluna's reign, show that a palatial system of agricultural taxation was in place around the palace town that produced this archive. The imposts collected by the palace are known from the preceding Old Babylonian and the following Middle Babylonian periods, with somewhat differing meanings and methods of recording. The present article examines the Sealand I evidence within the second-millennium Babylonian administrative continuum, in particular the collection of the šibšu, the miksu, and the kiṣru.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"45 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Būr-Sîn or Amar-Suʾena: Was There a “Historical Omen” of Būr-Sîn of Isin?","authors":"N. P. Heessel","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0099","url":null,"abstract":"A new fragment of a Neo-Assyrian extispicy text from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago contains selected omens from different chapters of the extispicy series bārûtu. One of these omens appears to be a parallel to a so-called historical omen thought to refer to King Būr-Sîn of Isin. The new omen, however, calls this interpretation into question, because it describes events otherwise attributed in the omen literature to King Amar-Suʾena of the Third Dynasty of Ur. This raises serious doubts on the very existence of any Mesopotamian “historical” omens concerning King Būr-Sîn of Isin.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"99 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Elevation of Marduk Revisited: Festivals and Sacrifices at Nippur during the High Kassite Period","authors":"J. S. Tenney","doi":"10.5615/JCUNESTUD.68.2016.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/JCUNESTUD.68.2016.0153","url":null,"abstract":"This article edits two previously unpublished Kassite period texts from Nippur. Their contents raise three points about cultic practice and ideological transmission in Babylonia under Kassite rule. First, they demonstrate that, by the thirteenth century, akītu celebrations connected to Marduk and the city of Babylon were being held at Nippur, and therefore contain the earliest, explicit references to the akītu festival of Marduk from a southern Mesopotamian city that is not Babylon. This discovery forces reappraisals of some aspects of the development of the elevated Marduk ideology and the proposed Babylon +Nippur/Marduk+Enlil pairing. Second, one of the texts, CBS 10616, presents clear evidence of rituals and celebrations that have been hinted at in later scholarly works, such as Astrolabe B, OECT 11: 69+70 and the Nippur Compendium, but whose practice heretofore has never been directly attested. Third, these texts and associated issues ostensibly alter current views on the adoption of Nippur cultic ideology by institutions in Babylon and Ashur throughout the second and early first millennium. They are particularly germane to the mechanisms, timing, and sources by which Babylonian intellectual and religious thought found its way into the written record of Assyria.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"153 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/JCUNESTUD.68.2016.0153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70749378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loose Threads of Tradition","authors":"Enrique Jiménez","doi":"10.5282/UBM/EPUB.49553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5282/UBM/EPUB.49553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71102795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erra-kibrī, ŠABRA D'Iddin-Ilum et ses Collègues","authors":"Laurent Colonna d’Istria, D. Beyer","doi":"10.5615/JCUNESTUD.67.2015.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/JCUNESTUD.67.2015.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans un article intitulé « Wer war Tarâm-Mari? », K. Hecker (2008) a publié deux contrats privés paléo-assyriens provenant du niveau kārum-II de Kültepe-Kaniš (Kt m/k 102 et Kt m/k 171). Sur ces contrats figurent l'empreinte du sceau d'un individu dépendant d'Iddin-Ilum, šakkanakku de Mari. L'étude, ici présentée, propose de relire le nom du propriétaire originel en Erra-kibrī au lieu de Tarâm-Mari comme cela avait été précédemment proposé, et de l'identifier comme un ŠABRA. En outre, ce sceau offre un nouvel exemple de représentation de la déesse au couteau, figure récurrente des sceaux des ŠABRA ou autres fonctionnaires ayant exercés durant les règnes d'Iddin-ilum et Iṣi-Dagan, šakkanakkus de Mari.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/JCUNESTUD.67.2015.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Illicit Hittite-Latin Affair","authors":"B. Iv","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Hittite has a small family of words referring to (primarily) illicit sex acts and those who practice them: LÚpupuc., probably “(adulterous) lover, paramour” (KBo 6.26 iv 12 and perhaps in a fragmentary context at KUB 43.55:12), its derivative LÚpupuwatar “adultery” (or other type of illicit sexual act) KBo 9.73 obv. 6, and the noun or adjective *pupuwalathat is the base of pupuwalai-zi, “seduce, have sex with” (?) KUB 24.7 i 41 and the latter’s better attested abstract pupuwalatar, variously translated as “seduction, rape, adultery, sex.”1 Though the exact meanings of pupuwalai-zi and pupuwalatar are a little difficult to nail down, Güterbock established2 that all these words are fundamentally reproachful terms for sexual intercourse, whether referring to fornication, adultery, or possibly rape; in only one passage do any of them seem to be in an unambiguously positive context.3 In all the extant examples of pupuand its derivatives where the actors are stated or implied, it is the male role in the sex act that is referred to, a point to which I shall return. The standard reference works ever since Friedrich (HW1 s.v. LÚpupu-) have taken LÚpuputo be a Lallwort,4 and compared it typologically with words like Lat. pūpa “girl, doll” and German Popo “backside.” But whatever lexemes may be whelped in the arena of fornication or adultery, Lallwörter are not terribly likely candidates. It is in fact far too easy to attach this label to anything having repeated consonants or potentially belonging to affective vocabulary, and previous scholars have not made a strong case. After claiming that pupuis a Lallwort, Tischler in HEG dismisses alternative accounts “angesichts des universellen Charakters derartiger Bildungen,” which is circular. In HED, Puhvel adduces a list of similar-sounding “babble-words” with p’s in them for “sweetheart, darling” and","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"67 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Proposed Chronological Sequence and Dates of Composition of Esarhaddon's Babylon Inscriptions","authors":"Jamie R. Novotny","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0145","url":null,"abstract":"The Babylon Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, perhaps the best-known group of texts in the extant corpus this seventh-century Assyrian king, have for decades presented a real challenge in cracking the various levels of ideology imbedded in their contents, as well as the chronological order in which they were written. The latter issue is closely tied to the fact that several clay prisms inscribed with these texts are all dated by the formula šanat rēš šarrūti, “accession year.” This paper will argue that the intentional dating of the Babylon Inscriptions reflects historical reality and that Esarhaddon's did not deliberately falsify the dates of inscriptions. It will also closely examine the contents of the known texts in this small subcorpus of this Assyrian king's official inscriptions and suggest new dates of composition for each text (especially Babylon A and Babylon D), as well as a new chronological sequencing of the inscriptions. Lastly, this paper will present updated editions of Babylon G and Babylon F based on an old nonphysical join proposed by A. R. Millard and a new international join discovered by the author.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"145 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery of the Zodiac Man in Cuneiform","authors":"J. Z. Wee","doi":"10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0217","url":null,"abstract":"Widely depicted in writings and drawings from ancient classical, medieval, and modern times, the Zodiac Man (Homo signorum) represents a roughly consistent correlation of zodiacal names with (human) body parts. Here, I announce the first discovery of the Zodiac Man in cuneiform writing and possibly its earliest attestation in the history of ideas. This Zodiac Man belongs to a hitherto misunderstood astrological table on a British Museum tablet (BM 56605), and its function in the table helps to clarify late Babylonian methods of medical astrology.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"217 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5615/jcunestud.67.2015.0217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70748541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}