A New Old Babylonian Date List with Hammurapi Year Names
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Babylonian, date list, year formulae, Hammurapi, Old BabylonianAbstract
This paper contains the publication of a previously unknown date list of Hammurapi, the king of Babylon, with his year formulae, kept in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq. The tablet originally contained the year formulae for 42 years of Hammurapi's reign and ended with a summation of the number of years formulae recorded at 42. The obverse is better preserved than the reverse and the beginning lines on the reverse are mostly broken. This study contains an abbreviated version of the Hammurapi date list compared with other Hammurapi date lists and year formulae. The manuscript of Sulaymaniyah contains 43 lines, which is shorter than the MAH and DL[i]-K (anonymous[ii] 513458 [CDLI P513458]) manuscripts, and all the lines of Sulaymaniyah's manuscript are completely or partially preserved.
[i] DL (date list).
[ii] In CDLI, this concept is used instead of museum names for any text which museum is unknown.
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Dr. Ardalan Khwshnaw, Salahaddin University – Erbil, Collage of Arts, Archaeology Department, [email protected].
DL (date list).
In CDLI, this concept is used instead of museum names for any text which museum is unknown.
Slemani Museum is an archaeological Museum, located within the heart of the city of Slemani - Slemani Governorate - Iraq. It is also known as the Sulaymaniyah Museum. In terms of numbers of contents, it is the second largest Museum in Iraq, following the National Museum of Iraq. It houses artefacts, which date from the pre-historic periods to the late Islamic and Ottoman periods.
Here, I wish to thank Mr. Hashim Hama Abdullah, Director of the Sulaymaniyah (Slemani) Museum, for his kind permission to publish SM 038125. I am also grateful to Mr. Hemn Nuri and Mrs. Hazha for their assistance in obtaining photos of it.
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