Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem: The Emar TabletsThis volume constitutes a new step forward in the study of the Late Bronze Age city of Emar. A multi-ethnic population of Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians and the north-west Semitic-speaking natives inhabited this port of call situated on the middle Euphrates on the frontier of the Hittite province of Syria, facing Babylonia to the south-east and Assyria to the north-east. It flourished during the last days of this hegemonic power system which was broken by the inroads of the Aramaeans, the Israelites, the Sea Peoples, and the rise of the Phoenician city states in the twelfth century. The tablets published here are in a variety of languages and cover the full range of types of documents found from rituals and cultic inventories to legal documents and payment lists. Each text type is dicussed and parallels to previously published texts are given. Every document is provided with an introduction placing it in its context, a transliteration, translation and philological and textual notes. Furthermore, they are presented in photographs, hand copies and with drawings of all the Hittite and Syrian sealings. These texts provide insights into the political, economic, social and religious life of the critical period of the late thirteenth and early twelfth centuries when the face of the Near East underwent global changes. |
Contents
HITTITE SEALINGS by Itamar Singer | 81 |
SYRIAN SEALINGS ང3 | 91 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 99 |
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a-na Akkadian Alalakh anepigraphic Appendix Assyrian attested Beckman Beyer BLMJ bronze brother Carchemish city of Emar city of Uri Collon cult inventory cuneiform legend Cylinder seal impression Dagan DINGIR discussion Diss diviner DUMU DUMU.LUGAL DUMU.MEŠ Durand dynastic seal Ebla Emar Emar texts figure Fleming found in Arnaud garment GÍN KÙ.BABBAR gold Gonnet Hittite hieroglyphic legend Hourrite Huehnergard Hurrian i-na ŠÀ-šú Iddin-Dagan idem inscription Iphur-Dagan KI.LÁ.BI KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI GAR.RA Laroche Le.E Lo.E logogram LÚ.UGULA.KALAM.MA Mādī-Dagan NA4.KIŠIB Nergal NIN.URTA Ninkurra note to line Nuzi Old Babylonian Overseer Palaeography personal name Philological and Textual Pilsu-Dagan Qatna references Ring seal ritual royal family Salonen scribe ŠE.MEŠ Seal Imp ŠEŠ-šu sheep shekels shekels of silver Signet Ring Impression stamp seal storage silo Storm-god Subarian Syro-Hittite type tablet Teššup Text Obv Textual Notes Translation Tsukimoto 1990 Tūra-Dagan Ugarit Up.E vineyard Westenholz Witness ZABAR
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