Text and Performance: Tayyartu, "Repetition," in a Mīs Pî-type incantation and an Emesal prayer

Abstract:The following examines the Akkadian scribal annotation</jats:p

A Literary Topos of Abundance: Two Emesal Prayers to Enki

This study analyses a literary topos concerning the abundance of natural phenomena, including fresh water, reed beds and fish. The standardised sequence listing such abundant natural features occurs in two previously unpublished tablets containing Emesal prayers concerning the god Enki, published in this article. The Old Babylonian tablet, of unknown provenance, attests to a unique composition. The tablet from Late Babylonian Ur, which is partially paralleled by a previously known manuscript, includes performative indications

Expenditures by the gu-za-lá official at Maškan-šapir at the time of Rim-Sîn of Larsa

The thirteen tablets published here for the first time belong to one dossier in which the principal figure is a man by the name of Warad-Nanna, a gu-za-lá-official. He was stationed at Maskan-sapir where he administered the disbursals of beer, flour and barley to various destinations. The main destination of these expenditures was the naptanum ceremonial banquet. It occurs in eleven of the thirteen cases, dated between Rim-Sin’s sixth and eighth year. The article touches upon matters of tablet typology, chronology, and history of the Old Babylonian period.status: publishe

Kaštiliašu and the Sumundar Canal: A New Middle Babylonian Royal Inscription

This article presents an edition of a new royal inscription of the Kassite king Kaštiliašu. The inscription is preserved on a clay tablet and deals with the digging of the Sumundar canal. In the following discussion we identify the king in the inscription as Kaštiliašu III, known from the Synchronistic King List. The geneology of the king in the inscription is compared to that known from the Synchronistic King list and other sources. The article also deals with the location of the Sumundar canal and with the religious rituals ceremonies which were connected to royal canal digging.status: publishe