UR Ill TEXTS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MANCHESTER

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1 UR Ill TEXTS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MANCHESTER by TOHRU GOMI, MA he eighty-six texts published here for the first time belong to the T collection in the John Rylands University Library. Most of the tablets in the possession of the library were published either by C. F. Bedale or by T. Fish many years ago.' The rest have remained virtually untouched since then, with some exceptions.2 When the writer visited the library in 1979 to make a collation of the tablets published by the two above-mentioned scholars on the advice of Professor H. Waetzoldt of Heidelberg, he copied about ninety unpublished neo-sumerian tablets3 with the generous permission of Miss Glenise Matheson, the Keeper of Manuscripts, and he wishes to express his thanks to her, as well as to the editor of the Bulletin for publishing these copies. Most of the tablets come from Lagash (Nos. 1 & 2), Umma (Nos & 76) or Drehem (Nos ), judging from their contents andlor month names written on them. But it is almost impossible to ascertain the provenance of the remaining ten tablets. CATALOGUE* *L, U and D stand for Lagash, Umma and Drehem respectively. Text Date Subject 1 - L Vlll Barley 2 [ 1LV728 Garments (from?) Urbaba. 'C. F. Bedale, Sumerian Tablets from Umma in the lohn Rylands Library (Manchester, 1915) and T. Fish, Catalogue of Sumerian Tablets in the lohn Rylands Library (1932). New collations of the texts in both these books will be published in the near future by the writer. ' ~ D. r Kennedy has studied the Old Babylonian records and Dr. C. Wilcke published five Sumerian literary texts in AfO, xxiv (1973),1-5. 3~hey have been left unnumbered. In the library there are c. twenty more neo-sumerian tablets, the majority of which are, however, fragmentary. Two of them are large administrative documents from Lagash with three or four columns on each side of the tablets so far as they are preserved. One is concerned with garments and wools; it ends: t6g-ba sig-ba ugula Ga-mu li Ka5- a. The subject of the other is barley rations for workers. 87

2 THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AS 8 U Vlll ISlU[ IS 1 U VII IS 1 U Vlll IS 1 U Vlll IS 1 U IX IS1UX IS 2 U II IS 2 U II IS 2 U Ill IS 2 U IV IS 2 U IV l Reeds for Emash. Reeds for Emash. Bales of cut reed canes1 from the field ~n-du~-du.~ Reeds for Emash. A copy of Adda's receipt. Reeds for Emash. Reeds brought from Endudu to Emash. Reeds brought from Endudu to Emash. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley for the fodder of oxen and sheep. A copy of Adda's receipt. Barley for rations and fodder. Barley for the fodder of sheep at Dugda-temen-na.3 Delivery of a commodity. Barley for the field Ninurra for Emash as the fodder of sheep. Barley for the sheepfold. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley for the fodder of oxen. Barley and bran for the fodder of oxen. Bran for the fodder of oxen. Barley and bran for the fodder of oxen. Bran for the fodder of oxen in the 'royal ~hapel'.~ [ l for the fodder of [ l. e or pa-kus-gi, cf. H. Limet, RA, xlix (19551, 81, No. 34 and no. 1. Our text may be the second one to refer to it. This Sumerian word has the following Akkadian equivalents: pakuttu(m) (ein Baumstarnm ohne Zweige?, AHw, 812); nas'batdm) (abgeschlagener Palmzweig, ibid. 760); urli(m) (ein Zweig, Palmwedel, ibid. 1435). For the place-name, d. a field listed in Pettinato, Untersuchungen zur neusumerischen Landwirtschaft, 1, N.281. This field name was read en-gaba-gin and interpreted as The Lord confronts' by Sollberger, Texts from Cuneiform Sources, 1 (19661, 118, No. 218, 2-1. Cf. Pettinato, op. cit. No For gi-gur7-a 'chapel', from which the Akkadian word kikurrli (AHw, 475: etwa Ternpelfundament' and CAD K, 353: a chapel or cultic socle) seems to

3 UR Ill TEXTS IN JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 89 - U VII U XI1 - U VII 1-3 -U XI - U VII S 34 U XI1 S 31 U IX Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Barley and bran for the fodder of oxen. Barley for the fodder of sheep in a threshing floor. Barley and bran for the fodder of oxen. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Bran for the fodder of oxen. Female workers(?) for a mill. Foods. From Umma? Transfer of barley from the house of the governor. Transfer of barley. N.B. two different month names. Expenditure of bran. Possibly a duplicate of No. 39. Barley at Pus. Expenditure of bran. Beer for two men. Barley. Barley received at the granary Auda.' Barley flour. have been derived, although neither refers to its Sumerian forms, some spellings are attested in neo-sumerian administrative texts. (i) gi-gur7-a: Oppenheim, AOS, 32, C3 (now Sauren, Les tablettes cuneiforrnes... des collections de la New York Public Library, No. 981, 5; Sollberger, op. cit. 220, 7; Kang, SACT, , 5; Legrain, TRU, 328, 2; de Cenouillac, /TT, , 8 (<a>); (ii) gi-'gul-ru-a: Jacobsen, CTNMC, 9, 2; (iii) gi-ku!-ru!-a: Keiser, CB, 15, It was Jacobsen in op. cit. p. 21, n. 1 who rightly understood this word. He was followed by Oppenheim who wrote in AOS, 32, p. 67, a, that The royal gi-gur7-a... was a sacred locality where zur7-offerings have sometimes been effectuated.' But some different interpretations are found, for example, in Landsberger, Der kultische Kalender der Babylonier und Assyrer (19151, p. 71 and n. 1; Sollberger, op. cit. p. 172,652,3 B ('to make (certain kinds ofl offerings' for a verb $a-guru7); Kang, op. cit. 162 (the reed storage (3) house) and Owen, INES, xxxiii (19741,176 ('according to the desire of' for ;A-gi-gur7-a). 'In Pettinato, op. cit. No. 122 the existence of a granary is not referred to for this field.

4 THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY S 46 D VII 4 AS 7 D VII AS 1 D XI1 Barley. Flour from the granary of the Cuedinna (-field).' Barley. Barley for he-dab5, and for the old men coming back from their bala duty. Bee; for the offerings. Bran received by Urnungal. Female workers carrying reeds. Female workers carrying reeds. Female weavers carrying reeds. Barley for two men. Worker taken in charge. Line 2: 'g-gultlat-kat-ni. Contents obscure. Se-lli cereals? Dead animals. Date between S 47 & AS Memorandum on a transfer of animals. Memorandum on dead animal^.^ Dead animal. Copy enlarged twice. Barley for the fodder of oxen coming from Nippur. An Ur text? Butter and cheese, gifts from cowherds. BARxAN donkeys. Cf. AnOr., 7, 6 and BIN, 3, 9. Expenditure of animal offerings in Tummal. Delivery of animals. Animal offerings at Unug. A she-goat taken in charge. Wooden objects for men going on an expedition. Cf. TIM, 6, 34 and Ibid. No ~uch another example is a Drehem tablet which was published as no. 2 in my 'Administrative Texts of the Third Dynasty of Ur in the Merseyside County Museums, Liverpool', Orient. Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in japan, xvi (1980), 2.

5 UR Ill TEXTS IN JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 91 AS 7 D VII AS 7 D VII 22 AS 7 D Vlll 30 AS 8 D V I PERSONAL NAMES Animals taken in charge. Dead animals. Dead animals. Animals for the regular offerings during the bala duty of Nurdagan. Dead animals to be compensated. Provenance doubtful. Expenditure of animals. Expenditure of animals for Nanna at the 'Holy Marsh' in Ur. Worker taken in charge. Expenditure of beer. Expenditure of beer. Carcasses of ewes. Barley for the fodder of sheep. Memorandum on cereals? Expenditure of vegetables. Produce of date palms. Memorandum on a field. Contents obscure. Offerings for Enlil. INDICES [ l.da.[ 133:4 X.X.GAR 53:2 [ l-nanga ad-'gub;, father of lrl 46:2 A-[ l-a-ab 80:4 A-ab-ba-mu Sidim 12 : 2 A-a-kal-la (i) ensi-ummaki 48 seal; (ii) sagi 75:3 A-bat-al-la 77:7 ~-ba-~~n-iil-~i~ 75 : 5 o or the calendar of Drehem after the fourth regnal year of Shusin inclusive, see my article in BiOr, xxxiv (1977), and R. M. Whiting's article in ZA, lxix (19791, 'See H. Limet, L'anthroponymie sumcrienne, p. 286, No. 108.

6 92 THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Ab-ba-Sa6-ga 59:4 & 10; 67:3; 69:7 A-da-na-ah 61:4 Ad-da 1:2; 6:6; 11:4; 36:2 & case 2; 45:3; 46:4; 50:6; 51:6; 52 : 6 A-du-mu 6:4 A-gu 55:1;76:4 A-kal-la 34:6;79:4 AI-la, father of KUR~.ZA-~~~~~ 5 seal AI-6-a-a 77:4 A-lug-lug 10:3; 13:3; 16:5; 17:5; 18:3; 25:5; 26:5; 29:5; 31:3; 41 : 6 h-nin-gd-ta 34: 2 ~~.~l-i~i-s&-du 12 : 5 Bu-un-ta 67:2 Da-da 24:5 Da-du-mu 42:4 Da-hi-iS-a-tal 74:2 Da-na-da 77:18 DI.KU5-mi-Sar 68:ll f-a-i-li 63:7 En-dingir-mu 60:3; 72:5 d~n-lfl-ld 58:3; 59:2 & 8 En-6-a 38:5 Gu-du-du 29:4; 53:4 CUR~.ZA-~$~~~ 5 : 3 gikuza(~~.~~~)-ni 77:5!ju-ba-a 68:4 I-kal-la ugula 8:3; 50:5; 51:5; 52:4 I-161-lum 68:7 I-Ii-X 78:4 1 Cf. AN.IGI.~~.DU in C. Wilcke, AfO, xxv. 91, Text No. 3, Obv. 1 where he reads it 2s Ding-ir-palil, or Dingir-igi-:P-du (n. 18). See further Celb, MAD, 3, 32 and Limet, ibid. p Is our text read as Dingir-ni-palil, or Dingir-ni-igi-3-du? In a tea in Liverpool published in Orient, xvi (19801, 109 as no. 180 a similar name dsar6-igi-s*&du also occurs. he problem of~he possible identification of two differently spelt personal names, CUR~.ZA-~S~~~ and KU%.ZA~S~~A, which have been copied andlor transliterated by many scholars as if the first signs CURs and KUR4 were HAR and GIS respectively, will be discussed elsewhere.

7 UR Ill TEXTS IN JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 93 I-li-su 78:9 I-lul-ilum 78:6 lnim-dlnanna 38:2 Inim-:[a6?- l father of L6-dulo-ga 1 seal In-ta-6-a 69:9; 74:6 Irl (i) 79: 3; (ii) son of [ l-nanga 46:2 Irll-mu 5:2 jr-d~anna 40 : 2 ~-ti-~adad 80 : 9 Ku-li, son of Ma-ma 73:3 & seal ~C-~Nin-~6 18 : 6 KUR~.ZA-~S~~~,~ son of AI-la 5 seal ~C-~Sarh 7:2; 31:8 L"-A.AB.X.X.KI( = LL~-~zA~~.uNU?.M~~S~~~ 77:14 L6-AN.[ l 78:3 L6-dingir-ra 57:11'; 72:6 L6-dulo-ga (i) dub-sar 36:4, case 3 & seal; (ii) dub-sar, son of Inim-g[a67]-[ 1 1:3; (iii) ugula 8:6 ~li-~ridu~' 77:6 Lugal-a-zi-da 13 :8 'Lugal -6' 34 :l1 Lugal-'eg-[ l 82:5 Lugal-6-mah-e 35:3 & case 2 ((e)) ~u~al-~~'~i~ir-'re' 54:l-2 Lugal-ha-ma-ti 65 : 3 Lugal-inim-gi-na 44: 2 LU~~I-KUR.G~.X 47: 6 Lugal-kh-zu 77: 3 Lugal-:a6-zu 45:4 & seal Lugal-6r-ra-ni 83 :l1 Lugal-6-s'im-e 34 : 7 Lugal-zA-ge-si 83 : 7 L6-gi-na 77:2; 84:101 LGdlnanna gu-za-lh 2 : 5 ~6-~Nanna 7:4 ~i-~nin-ur~-ra 34: 5 L[6I-s'a6-"I'-zu 49 : 2 Ma-ma father of Ku-li 73 seal

8 94 THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Mu-ni 53:3 Na-lu5 58:6; 64:8; 70:5; 71:5 Nam-ha-ni 78: 5 d~anse-gir-gal 64 : 4 Na-ra-am-1-1; 63 : 6 [Nal-;a6 65 : 7 Nigin-gar 77: 21 Nigin-gar-ki-dulo 83 :l0 ~i-iz-'rug-urn' 77:15 Nir-i-da-gal 68: 2 ~u-~r-~~a-~an ensi-~imbi6~ 72:4 ~u-~jr-~~in (i) 67:4; (ii) dub-sar 74:7 Ri-ba-ga-da 74 : 3 Sag-dingir-tuk 78:7 $a-k~-~e 77:l dgar6-a-mu (i) dub-sar, [son] of Lugal-[ l 43:2(?); (ii) ugula 9:4 d<ar6-ba-an-zi-ge 76 :l dsard-zi 77:8 Sar-ru-um-i-li 80:13 SA-ta-kir-zu 34:13 Seg-a-ni 26:2; 27:5; 29:6 Seg-kal-la 34:3 Su-eg4-dar 80 : 7 dsul-gi-uru-rnu 60:4; 70:6; 71:6; 77:17 Ur-[ ].X 24:4 Ur-X.X-mu 41 : 3 ~r-~kzi-da 37: 9 ~r-~~a-ba~ ~an~a-~~in-slin 2 : 2 ~r-d~a-mu 48:ll Ur-d~umu-zi-da 39:lO; 4D:4; 56:2 Ur-ell-e 42:3 ~r-d~ugal-[edlin-ka 66:16 Ur-d~a-mi (i) 10:6; 13:6; 15:6; 18:5; 27:4; 31:6; (ii) son of [ l 53:5 &seal ' Celb, MAD, 3, ~ f ~ag-~~a-ba6-tuk. and sag-d~anna-tuk in Limet, op. cit. p ~ copying error for ~r-d~urnu-zi-da?

9 UR Ill TEXTS IN JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 95 Ur-mes 34:10; 48:12; 59:3 & 9; 77.9 Ur-nigin-gar 57:12'; 59: 5 Ur-d~in-gublaga 58:7 Ur-d~in-mug-ga 79 : 5 ~r-~~in-ur~-ra 27: 3(?) ~r-~~un-~al 25: 2; 49: 3 Ur-SI4.Sl4 42: 5 Ur-:a6-ga 61 : 3 ~r-~sard (i) 62:4(!); (ii) dub-sar, son of I (iii) ugula 47: 3(?) ~r-~sul-gi-ra Sdr-ra-ab-du 75 : 8 ~r?-~su-~~in 77:13 d~tu-bar-ra 2:3 l 44:3 & seal; 54 seal; II PROFESSIONS, TITLES AND THE LIKE ad-gub, See I l-nanga. dub-sar See L6-dulo-gal Nu-~r-~~in and ~r-~sari. dumu-mar-d6 85:6 ensi 48:13 See 6-ensi. ensi-ummaki See A-a-kal-la. ensi-zimbipi See Nu-dr-*~a-~an. gu-za-id See ~6-dlnanna. h6-dab5 47:1 16-sukkal-mab 85:4 sagi See A-a-kal-la. ~anga-~nin-s6n See ~r-~~a-ba~. Sdr-ra-ab-du See ~r-~su Lgi-ra. Sidim See A-ab-ba-mu. Su-gi4 47:5 ugula See tkal-la, W-dulo-gal dsar6-a-mu and ~r?-~sard! uni 62:1 & 8 unu-amar 62:4 1 Excluding those in proper names.

10 96 THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY d~a-na-a 66:7 d~anna 75:2 d~in-lfl 64:3 d~in-s6n See ~r-~~a-ba6 sanga-n. IV GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES, FIELDS, BUILDINGS a-s'a-en-du8-du 5 : 5 a-s'a-16-mah See ki-su7-a-sa-16-mat-. a-sa-d~in-ur4-ra 15:2; cf. 27:3(?) er^' 68:8 DU~-da-temen-nal 13 :7 Censi 35:2;79:2 &kin-[ l 33:2 &kisib-da 62:9 6-mas' 3:2; 4:3; 6:3; 7:6; 8:8; 9:3; 15:5; 50:3; 51:4 En-dug-du 8:7; 9:2; 50:2; 51:2; 52:2 6-udu-X 16:4 C-uz-<ga) 58:4 gb-nun-gis' 2:4 gi-gut-,-a-lugal 23 : 5 gig-gi-kli-ga 75 : 2 g~r7-a-6-da~ 42:7 gur7-g6-edin-na 45 : 2 kb-*s 66:2 kd-gi6-par-ra 66:5, 9 & 13 ki-a-x 80:8 'kip-&gki 41 :2 "'kiri6 83:lO ki-su7-a-sa-16-mah 29:3 Nibruki 61:2 PU-6ski 38:6 ~uzur~-ig-~~a-gan 68 :13(?!) Tum-ma-al 64:7 ummaki See A-a-kal-la ensi-ummaki. nu(^)^' 6637 ~ri(m)~' 36:3; 65:4; 75:7 'see p. 88, n. 3 above. 'see p. 89, n. 1 above.

11 zimbirki UR Ill TEXTS IN JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 97 See ~u-cr-~~a-~an ensi-zimbirki. V SELECTED WORDS AND PHRASES bala 47:5; 49:4; 72:4 dub-mab 3:4. But perhaps kis'ib-su~~u~x. gaba-ri 3:4; 6:5; 11:3 kaskal 68:3; 80:8 kis'ib-ra 3 : 3; 9 : 5 mz-da-ri-a 62 : 5 & 8 mu-du 3:2; 4:2; 6:3; 7:5; 9:3; 14:2; 15:4; 16:4; 65:5; 74:4 mu-du-lugal 63 : 5 s6-dull 10:2; 13:2; 17:6; 18:2; 19:l; 26:3; 29:2; 31:2; 48:12; 66:3 & 12 sh-dul l-lugal 72: 3 SE.KIN.$E.KIN 42 :2 The following abbreviations are used: AfO = Archiv fur Orientforschung (Graz, AHw = W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handworterbuch (Wiesbaden, AnOr = Analecta Orientalia (Rome, AOS = American Oriental Series (New Haven, Connecticut, BIN = Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of I. B. Nies (New Haven, BiOr = Bibliotheca Orientalis (Nederlands lnstituut voor het Nabije Oosten) (Leiden, CAD = The Assyrian Dictionary (Chicago, CB = C. L. Keiser, Cuneiform Bullae of the Third Millennium BC. (New York, CTNMC = Th. Jacobsen, Cuneiform Texts in the National Museum, Copenhagen, chiefly of economical contents (Leiden, ITT = lnventaire des tablettes de Tello conservces au MusCe ImpCrial Ottoman (Paris, JNES = lournal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago, MAD = Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary (Chicago, RA = Revue d'assyriologie et d'archcologie orientale (Paris, SACT = Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform Texts in the Collection of the World Heritage Museum of the University of Illinois (Urbana, TIM = Texts in the Iraq Museum (Baghdad, TRU = L Legrain, Le temps des rois d'ur (Paris, Z A = Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archaologie. Neue Folge (Berlin,

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