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The Sultantepe Tablets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

O. R. Gurney
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With this number of Anatolian Studies we begin the publication of the Sultantepe tablets, as foreshadowed in Volume II, p. 35. The general nature of the hoard of tablets has already been described in the previous article. We present here three texts which are of some historical importance: the two eponym lists, and the tablet from “ M.2 ” (nos. 150, 18 + 21, and 331, of the 1952 season). All three provide some additional information about the series of limmu officials or eponyms, whose names were used by the Assyrians for dating their years and therefore form the basis of Assyrian chronology; the first two referring to the period covered by the “ Eponym Canon ” (911–648 B.C.) and the third to the short period between 648 and the fall of Nineveh (612 B.C.), for which there are no lists. It is hoped to continue the publication of the tablets in succeeding volumes.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 3 , December 1953 , pp. 15 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1953

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page 22 note 1 Or perhaps ŠE.

page 23 note 1 If this is the correct reading, one might restore: [in the eponymy of] Mušallim-Aššùr; cf. rev. 4.

page 23 note 2 End of a personal name.

page 24 note 1 End of a personal name.

page 24 note 2 If mûru is indeed singular, elûni must be 3 sing. subj. after ša. Otherwise we might translate: “they came up before Sin, who is in the middle of the city.” Another possibility is: “before Sin, who came up from the middle of the city.”

page 24 note 3 Literally “city-musterer”, a title otherwise unknown to me.

page 24 note 4 This title also seems to be unknown.

page 24 note 5 For a list of the post-canonical eponyms see Streck, , Assurbanipal I, pp. CDLXI–CDLXVGoogle Scholar.