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Bel-epuš and Tammaritu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Erle Leichty
Erle Leichty
Affiliation:
The University Museum
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Extract

In 1965 Richard D. Barnett, then keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum, asked me to undertake the compilation of a catalogue of the Sippar collection of cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. This collection, containing more than 30,000 tablets, was obtained by Rassam and others towards the end of the last century and at the beginning of this one. Most of the Sippar collection consists of economic texts from the Neo-Babylonian period. However some texts from other periods and other genres and even texts from other sites are included. Since 1965 I have spent almost every summer working on the Sippar catalogue. The project is now drawing to a close and the resulting catalogue will appear soon in three volumes. It seems only fitting that I use this opportunity to honour Richard D. Barnett by publishing a most interesting text from the Sippar collection.

The text published below is a deposition by a man named Bel-epuš in which he divides all of his worldly goods between his wife and his servants. The reasons he may have had for writing this deposition are suggested below.

Type
Research Article
Information
Anatolian Studies , Volume 33 , December 1983 , pp. 153 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1983

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References

1 For photographs see Plate XXXIV. I would like to thank Mr. T. C. Mitchell, acting Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities, and the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish this text and for the generous use of their facilities. I would also like to thank many of my colleagues who have taken the time to discuss the text and the history of the period with me at length; especially John Brinkman, Israel Eph'al, Pamela Gerardi and Hayim Tadmor.

2 The location of Hidalu is still subject to debate. But, see Hinz, W., “Wo lag Hidali?”, ZDMG 110 [1960], p. 250 fGoogle Scholar.

3 The frequent mentions of dEN-DÙ in ABL can all be identified with Bel-ibni rather than Bel-epuš.