CUNETFOPLM TEXTS

FROM

BABYLONIAN TABLETS, &c. IN' THE

P A R T XVIII.

(50 Plates.)

PRINTED RP ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

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;7: M A K ~ ~ N ' S L A N E .

Part XVIII . of "Cuneiform Tcxts from ijabylonian Tablets, etc.," contains texts from one hundred ancl twenty-cight clay tablets and f~agments of thc I<ouyunjik and othcr collections in the British Museum. T h e material published in this Part is entirely Icxic~g~aphical in chasactcr, and forms a portion of the great class of explanatory compositions which the Assyrian scribes com1,iled and edited during the period of the later Assyrian kings. The copies hcrcin give11 are made from the tablets drawn up by order of Ashur-.bani-pal, Icing of Assyria fro111 I:.c. 668 to 13.c. 626, for the Royal Library at Nineveh.

The Assyrian ancl Babylonian scribes were diligent studcnts of their o\vn literature, and with the twoiold object of aiding themselves in their own researches and of assisting begiilners in their studies they compilcd catalogues of their principal literary works and wrote explanatory tablets and commentaries on the more difficult among them. They also studied the language itself and thc Assyrian method of writing, and, in ordcr to facilitate the study of early Assyrian and Bahylonian texts, thcy compiled lists of the archaic forms of the characters ancl ;tttempted to trace thcm back tc the pictures fro111 which thcy origiilally sprang. Thc Assyrian scribes also compiled syllabarics, or lists of signs, to which they addccl the values of the characters and their Assyrian naines and meanings.

The Assyrian explanatory texts include grammatical ~jaradigms made for the use of beginners, classified lists of verbal formations, and lists of ideographs arranged in some cases according to the forms of the character5 with which they began or ended, and in others according to the meaniilgs or roots of their equivalents.

Perhaps. the most interesting class of grammatical tablets are the lists of synonymous Assyrian words, examples of which are publishecl in the present Part ; these tablets are really the oldest dictionaries in the world. The tablets are inscribed in double columns, that on the left containing the words to isc explained, and that on the right the synonyms. Sometimes several synonyms arc given for thc same word, and in such cases the scribe, in order to save himself the trouble of repeating the original word, often makes use of the sign 77, which is equivalent to our double commas (,, ) or "ditto."

Many of the tablets given in the following l~lalcs have already been publishecl either in whole or in part, and excerpts from thcrn lixve been frequently cluotecl ancl discussed ; they are, howevcr, here published i n a complete for111 for the first time. They may be conveiliently classified under the following five headings :.--

( I .) Lists of synonyinous Assyriarl words belonging to tablcts which have not been classified and collected into series (Plates 1-26). The following tablets and fragments have not hitherto been published completely:

KK. 2036, 4181, 4193, 4214, 4233, 4375, 54206 54404 5454, 5566, 5842, 7719, 7728, 7754, 8312, 9892, 9931, 9980, 9983, 10014, 10029, 10089, 10798, 11170, I I 191, 11205, I 1401, 11 j j j , 11773, 13579, 13 585, 13606, 13629, 13635, 73654, 13681, 14083, 14104, 14134, 14157, 14789; SS. 53, 1614, 1744 ; D.T. 105 KR. 355, 360 ; 79-7-8, 38 ; 81-2-4, 434 ; and Bu. 89-4-26, 48.

(2 . ) Lists of synonymous worcls inscribed upon tablets belo~igirlg to the Series which the Assyrians called ET zky &l k *m, i.c., M A L I ~ = ~~~~~~~zz a word meaning " king." This Series obtains its name froill the first pair of synonyms given in the first litle of the First Tablet of the Series (Plates 27-31). It consis1cd originally of at least eight 'Tablets, of which portions of the First, ancl the Third, a id the Eighth Tiblcts can still Ge identified by means of their colophons. The following fragments are here published for the first time : K K . 2054, 11233, 13593, 13612 and 13620.

(3.) Lists of Suinerian words with their Assyrian equivalents illscribecl upon tablets belonging to the Series which the Assyrians called -4- $TT1 -!p * '+J 5~2 c~~~ (var. <), AN-TA-(;AT, = : T ~ - ( ~ u - z L ("to be hig-h "), from the first liue of the First Tal~let of the series (Plates 32-37), Portions or the Third, and the Firth, and the Seventh, and the Eighth, and possibly of the Tenth Tablets of the Series have been identified by ineans of thcir colophons. The three fragments K. 8833, S. 1490, and 79-7-8, 31 arc here published for the first time.

(4.) Lists of Sunlerian words with their Assyrian equivalents inscribed upon tablets belonging to the Serics which the Assyrians callecl ,E:&&= c

-ET 77 -f, ALAnl = hz-n-nzd ("iinage "), from the first line of thc First Tablet of the Series (Plates 38-41). The following frag-ments are herc published for the first time: KK. 4191, 4243, 1 2 0 2 2 , and R. 2 , 37.

( 5 . ) Lists of Sumerian words with their Rssyriarl equivalents inscribed 11po11 tablets which have not been classified and collected into series (Plates 42-50). The following fragments are here published for the first time : KK. 214, 2022, 4192, 4555, 7699,,7707, 10083, 10194, ancl 80-7-19, 184.

T h e copics have been made by Mr. R. Campbell Thompson, M.A., Assistant in the Department.

E. A. W A L L I S B U D G E .

INDEX TO REGISTRATION NUMBERS .

~ e ~ i s c a t i u n No . of Tablet . Plate . K . 49 ... 492 50

... K . 5 2 ... 6 K . 107+4382 '9, 2 0

K.169 ... I 1-14 K . 206 ... ... '5

Registriition Nu . olTablet . Plate . K . 4220 ... ... 16

Regiitratmn No . ul Tablet . K . 7699 ... K . 7707 ... K . 7719 ... K . 7728 ... K . 7764 ... K . 8312 ... K . 8490+2032 K . 8665 ... K . 8833 ... K . 8848 ... K . 9891 ... K . 9892 ...

vi INUEX TO I'.EGISTRATION NUMBERS .

Registration No . of Tablet . Plate . K . 1 1 2 3 3 + 1 1 3 7 5 ... 2 9

l( . 1 1 3 7 j f 1 1 2 3 3 ... 2 9

K . 1 1 3 9 9 . . . . . . 2 2

I<existration Plate . / No . of Tablet

ADDENDUIM . PI . 33. S . 1490. Col . I., 1 . I. restore traces of :I: for thc first cha~.acter froin K . 4323. p1 . 3 6

LISTS O F SYNONYMS. PL A

OBVERSE.

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OBVERSE. 7 E *

K. 4375, Rm. 355,g 81-7-27. 55. PLATE 3. REVERSE.

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K. 4375.

REVERSE. (CONTINUEDI.

K. 4193. K. 3900*14354. PLATE 5.

OBVERSE. CdOVCRSE.

REVERSE.

K. 12021.

OBVERSE.

5.

10. REVERSE.

K. 10029.

5

10.

K K. 52, 2032,+ 8490, and 14789. PLATE 6. OBVERSE. REVERSE.

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PLATE 9.

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K. 169. REVERSE

PLATE 13.

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D. T. 58. REVERSE.

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K. 42H. PLATE 17.

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K. 9892.

K. 4587. PLATE 18 OBVERSE.

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10 OF THE SAME TABLET AS 5 53

REVERSE O N N E X T PLATE

K. 107 + 4302. REVERSE.

PLATE 20.

KK. 10452, 11409, 13606.

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K. 9891. Rrn. 354. PLATE 21.

REVERSE.

K. H191 t14100.

K. 2036. K. 4213 + 10050.~ 11399. PLATE 22.

NEXT PLATE.

PLATE 23.

K.4397.

PLATE 24.

K.11185. K. 6842.

OBVERSE. REVERSE. K. 4219.

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K. 10094. K. 7764. PLATE 25.

K. 13585.

K. 7719. K. 13579.

OBVERSE.

K. 4260.

PLATE 26.

REVERSE.

K. 10014.

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PLATE 28.

Rm. 349. REVERSE.

35.

K. 2054. OBVERSE.

10.

. 11233 + 11875.

K.2064. REVERSE.

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MISCELLANEOUS SERIES. PLATE 32,

(RIGHT-HAND TOP CORNER EXACT POSITION UNCE

K. 2008, K. 20,41 t 4253+4308+ 4583.K.4293. OBVERSE.

PLATE 33.

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K. 4370 OBVERSE.

(CONTINUES OBVERSE

OF K. 2008, ETCl

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K. 2008 ETC.

REVERSE

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PLATE 37. K. 4323- REVERSE.

PLATE 38.

K. 4191, Rm.2,37.

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PLATE 39. .

OBVERSE.

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m* @-R?= m m m m - - r n W

l I 840. I I

K. 4243 PLATE 40.

COLS. Ill, IV. REVERSE

K. 4248 REVERSE (CONTINUEDI.

K.'12022. OBVERSE.

REVERSE.

K.4311, K. 4321. PLATE 42.

OBVERSE.

I

K. 4321.

REVERSE.

K.2022 -c 13608 + 13610 OBVERSE. PLATE 43.

K. 2022. PLATE 44.

OBVERSE rCOMTINUEDI

OBVERSE.

REVERSE.

70.

K. 7699.

... K. 2022. , REVERSE.

OBVERSE. ,'

K.4192. PLATE 45. REVERSE.

For &he 02v-ersa

K. 4249 K. 2(M 2 REVERSE PLATE 46. (CONTINUED)

K.214. OBVERSE

Rm. 11.429. PLATE 47.

OBVERSE.

K. 4150. REVERSE.

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