Hallo, William W.

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WILTIA-M l,I. IIATIOAnother Sumerian Literary CataLozue?The nunber of texts novr itl.entified, as catalogues or in-ventories of Suroerian Literary works citect by their in-cipits continues to 6row. Ten years ago¡ f listecl seven-teen of tlren in JAOS e, (]-961) 169. In the sa¡ne year¡ Cat.J (citett here according to my list) was publishecl b¡. Gad.tland. Kramer as UET 6/tltZ1. Since then¡ the same authorshave published. at least one and. possibly three more examp-1es of the genre fron Ur (Unn 6/Z:196-1!8). fn the firstof theser note that the second. preserved. entry resembLesEntry 6 in Cat. l. (.tlOS B3¡1ZO)¡ the fourth is probablythe incipÍt of the "l"lonkey Ïrettertt ( Ali¡ Sunerian Let'bers¡ f4)¡ the sixth equals tlntry IJ of Cat. fr and the eighthresembles Entry 9 of the Latter.New d.iscoveries also suggest a revision of my vier.r that ¡in contrast to both the earlier and later catalogues¡ rttheO1d. Babylonian lists ... seem to exhibit no single consÍs-tent sequence or systen of classificationtt (;AOS Bl:168).l{ilcke hae published. an OItl Sabylonian catalogue of incan-tations fron the John Ryland.s l,ibrary (mO 24, Ig|j, l4f.)and. Kramer has announced. the d.lscovery of two large cata-logues of con6;regational Laments (fr-Ëèm-ma) fron the Bri-tish Museun which appear to be equally old..1 The trad.itionof generic cLassificatlon was firnly established. by t,iíitclle7778 \^¡ILLIAM \'I. IIALIOBabylonian and }fid-tlle Assyrian times¡ the significance ofthe respective catalogues¡ Cat. 9 (Tl,[I n.I. 1t JJ) anJ'Cat. 10 (KARI 158), for the hietory of Sumerian Literatureie taken up e1sewh""".2 The list of neo-Ass¡rrian catalo-gues (Cats. 11-16) ehould. be augmentecl by Rm. 22 22O, tle-voted to Índ.ividuaf laments (ír-åà-hun-gá) and publishedby tangcton¡ RA 22 (f925) ]-l-9-t25 together with nev¡ ed.L-tions of Cat. 15 (langdonr Bt lr8) antl Cat. 16 (j!. tt9).For the neo-Sabylonian catalogue Cat. IJ (Iuckenbill, AJSL26228)¡ eêê now S. Ievy and. P. Artzi, @dian Documents in Israel (= A!js,! 4, 1965) tto. 99.I nor+ propose to see another 01d Babylonian cataloguein CBS 14077 ¡ published in I9t4 by Chiera as STVC 41. Ia¡o inclebted to Peter Michalo¡¡ski for the collations markedwith an asterlsk and to David. Ov¡en for a photograph. Theoriginal may have had as many aet six columns¡ &s there areclear traces of signs (not copietl) to the left of the ttob-verÊe?tt and to the left antt rig'ht of therrreverse?rr¡ thoughit 1s not excluded. that these formed. the conclusion of thelines on the other side in the first two cases. Also¡ thecopy faile to show êouble clivid.ing-linee after I'obverse?rr2 and. L2t in the latter case followed. by the ]O-marlc toind.icater evÍclentlyr that ten compositions were includ.eclbetween the two doubLe d.ivitting-1ines. Note also that thebotton of thetrobverse?rris in fact the ed.ge of the tablet.0n the rrreverse?Í there is a d.ouble d.ivicling-line afterline 10. ] Sirr"" these rtividing lines d.o not geem to re-flect attJr generic grouping (see presently), the guess naybe venturett that they were clrawn mechanj.cally after everytenth entry. The foLlowing identifications nay be sug-gested..ANO1HER SI]MERTÂ}I LTTER¡.RY CATATOGUE?ttoSvuRsE?ilLine 10: ga-åa-an-mu ¿lè-gu[r] = entry !r in Rn. 2, 2ZO(na ze: L2J).line lJ, dUto è-ma = erðemma for Utu listeit in Cat. ll(fV n2 ,1) LL 26 (cf . i.bid.. i 5 anct iii 16) anrt ectitect bySchollmeyer, Ëanað (tgtZ) as Uo. 54.rÍne 14: 'rél-Bi4-* 'r61-[ta narn-ta-é] = batag of Inan-na l-isted. in Cat. lL i 44."REWRSA?"T,ine 23 âD nan-[...]3 cf. an-ne(var.: -né) nam-nír-ra(var.: gá1) = "sunmer and. hlinter¡rt cataloguecl in Cats. 5¡6, and.7 (na ¡f ¡t69 ft.l BASoR BB:12¡ antt TCL ].5: 28 re-spectively) as Entries 22¡ 29 and, Jl respectively.Line J: a-ba-a nu-un-ba-a[f-e] = ilThe Coronation of IIr-i{annurr as xeconstructed in ny ed.ition¡ JCS 20 (1966) Itg.Line {: ,ne-a lui = balbale-song of Suen¡ etiited. by Sjö-berg¡ Nanna-suenr No. 1r with the corrections of I'I. tram-bert¡ Or. to (:-96r) a9r. and. van Dijk, oLz 6a (t96E) zltlisted. in Cat. 5 (TlH n.F. Jz |,4) as Entry 2.Iine 5: ne am-'ra: cf. the next entry. in the same cata_logue (ne-a an).Iine J: [Ëi]m-zi-d.a rd.arl-ra: cf . entry 1 in the yatecatalogue. r take this opportunity to couect the readingand transtation in JAos B, (1961) 170 to dingir Ëi¡¡-zi-claÐAR-a¡ rrgodd.es colored. with eye-paínt (tonf ).rr ^d.nittedly¡the reatling gùn(-na) woukt expectecl.Iine 10: [dUena]urt-""U ,Éul Bi6-a du-du: cf. ISx! 1:71 Ni. 9501:1¡ a hynn to Nergal begÍnning (if tne ôolunnmarked. rtÍitt is in fact the first) [...Ëu]L gi6_* d.u_cLulcur-kur tukuO-tukuO(tutti ) .7980 IüLLIA¡'Í W. IIALLol,ine Ils [...J-x euO-ein: cf. perhaps the openíng lineof Éu1gi r (neimpel, @þ!}}g,¡ 1üo. 5.68).Granted the above identiflcatíons, the ord.er of entriesin STVC 41 woul¿ be: (ttobverse?'r) indÍvídual larnentr con-gregational lau¡entst (ttreverse?tt) d'isputation¡ royal h¡mn¡d.ivine h¡rrms. It woultt sêêrn¡ rnoreoverr that a number ofentries are shared in conmon by 01d Babylonian and neo-Âssyrian catalogues¡ though these are separatecl fron eachother by nore than a'millennium.Footnoteslzgtn International Congress of orfentalistsr ParisrI97r. Professor Kramer kintLly informs ne that his publi-cation of these texts t¡ill also appear Ín the present vo-lune¡ but our contributions have been submitted. indepen-ctently of eaob other.2Htllor rtToward a History of Sunerian L,iteraturerrt(forthoontng).JAnother¡ rtotrt erased.¡ may have once been nistal<en1yinserted after line 9.II

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