Minor Archives from First-Millennium BCE Babylonia, Part II: The Balīḫû Archive

Ludovica Cecilia, Johannes Hackl

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Abstract

The article presents editions of all known texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean prebendary Marduk-bēlšunu, son of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, that is, the Balīḫû archive. It is the second part of a series of articles that aims to make available the so-called satellite archives of the Ṣāḫiṭ-ginê A archive (“Marduk-rēmanni archive”) and related and unrelated smaller archives from Sippar, all dating to the long sixth century BCE.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)211-245
Number of pages35
JournalJournal of Cuneiform Studies
Volume73
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
L. Cecilia’s work on the topic has been conducted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and supported by a Fellowship for Doctoral Research in the Humanities of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). J. Hackl provided sections 1, 2 and 3, L. Cecilia section 4 and the appendix; section 5 is the joint work of the authors. We are indebted to M. Jursa and C. Waerzeggers for information on unpublished texts that they identified as certain or probable components of the archive, to M. Krebernik and R. Zadok for comments on personal names, and to a peer reviewer for criticism and corrections. Responsibility for errors is ours. Unpublished texts from the British Museum are cited with the kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. Abbreviations are those of AfO 48/49 (2001/2002: 311–505) and Jursa 2005: 153–55. Note furthermore: BR + page number = text published in Jursa 1999; MR + number = text published in Waerzeggers 2014. Measurements are given in centimeters, width × height × thickness. When incomplete, they have an asterisk added. Uncertain translations and restorations are in italics. Signs written over an erasure or other sign traces are marked with °. Conversion from Babylonian to Julian dates follows Parker and Dubberstein 1956. Hand copies of the Balīḫû texts will be published separately, together with those of the remaining texts of the series (see Pirngruber 2020, the first in this series of articles).

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Keywords

  • Neo-Babylonian period
  • Archival studies
  • Cuneiform Archives
  • Neo-Babylonian society

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