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oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html i THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS VOLUME 1 2 1 Series Editors Thomas A. Holland and Thomas G. Urban oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html ii DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html iii CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM THE UR III PERIOD IN THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE VOLUME 2 DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA by MARKUS HILGERT with contribution by CLEMENS D. REICHEL ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS • VOLUME 121 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO • ILLINOIS oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html iv DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA Library of Congress Control Number: 2003104554 ISBN: 1-885923-24-4 ISSN: 0069-3367 The Oriental Institute, Chicago ©2003 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2003. Printed in the United States of America. Series Editors’ Acknowledgments The assistance of Katherine Strange Burke, Lindsay DeCarlo, Katie Johnson, Munira Khayyat, Adam Miglio, and Leslie Schramer is acknowledged in the production of this volume. Printed by McNaughton & Gunn, Saline, Michigan The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Services — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html v A MIQUEL CIVIL, AMB ADMIRACIÒ I AMISTAT oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html vi DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA O Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being “the freshest modern” instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,—that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else? —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html vii TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .............................................................................................................................................................. xxi ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA ........................................................................................................................ xxii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................................................... xxiii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................ xxv BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................................. xxxiii 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Drehem Texts from the Reign of Amar-Suena in the Collection of the Oriental Institute — Notes on the History of Acquisition .............................................................................................. 1 1.1.1 Accession Number 117 — OIM A95–A171........................................................................... 3 1.1.2 Accession Number 3369 — OIM A30804.............................................................................. 4 2CONVENTIONS OF TEXT EDITION .......................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Selection of Texts ........................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Method of Text Arrangement......................................................................................................... 5 2.3 Transliterations ............................................................................................................................... 6 2.3.1 Additional Information ............................................................................................................ 7 2.4 Illustrations ..................................................................................................................................... 9 2.5 Charts .......................................................................................................................................... 9 3TYPOLOGICAL NOTES ON DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA ........................................................................................................................... 11 3.1 Quantitative Aspects ...................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.1 Chronological Distribution of Drehem Administrative Texts from the Reign of Amar-Suena ............................................................................................................................. 12 3.1.2 The “Central Bureau” — Texts from the Reigns of Åulgi and Amar-Suena in the Oriental Institute Museum ..................................................................................................................... 14 3.2 Text Formula .................................................................................................................................. 17 3.2.1 Left Edge Inscriptions ............................................................................................................. 17 3.2.1.1 Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Åulgi ......................................... 17 3.2.1.2 Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Amar-Suena.............................. 18 3.2.2 Excursus: Drehem Year Date Formulae for the Year Amar-Suena 2 ..................................... 19 3.2.3 The Formula “ å à m u - D U - r a - t a ” ................................................................................. 20 3.2.4 Withdrawals for the G À R . D U People ................................................................................ 21 3.2.5 The Concluding œ ì r i -Formula ................................................................................................... 24 3.3 Paleography .................................................................................................................................... 25 3.3.1 Paleographic Variants of the Sign I T I .................................................................................. 26 3.3.1.1 Distribution of Paleographic Variants under Åulgi (OIP 115) ........................................ 27 3.3.1.2 Distribution of Paleographic Variants under Amar-Suena (OIP 121) ............................ 28 4EXCURSUS: DREHEM DUPLICATE RECORDS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA.................. 31 4.1 Documentation and Analysis ......................................................................................................... 31 4.2 Duplicate Records from Drehem during the Reign of Amar-Suena Arranged Numerically or Alphabetically by Publication Siglum ....................................................................................... 40 vii oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/121/OIP121.html viii DREHEM ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS FROM THE REIGN OF AMAR-SUENA 5 SELECTED NOTES ON THE BUREAUS .................................................................................................... 43 5.1 The naGaBtum Organization ......................................................................................................... 43 5.1.1 Twin Expenditures for the naGaBtum Officials ..................................................................... 43 5.1.2 Documents Issued Anonymously ............................................................................................ 47 5.1.3 Notes on Individual Documents ..............................................................................................49 5.2 Puzriå-Dagan — The “Central Bureau” ......................................................................................... 53 5.2.1 Same-Day Expenditures from Deliveries to the “Central Bureau” ........................................ 54 5.2.2 Excursus: The ki-bi gi®-a-account OIM A4627+ (Text 248) ................................................. 57 5.2.3 Notes on Individual Documents ..............................................................................................61 5.3 The Bureau of Nalu ........................................................................................................................ 64 5.3.1 Notes on Individual Documents ..............................................................................................65 5.4 The Tummal Bureau ....................................................................................................................... 65 5.4.1 Notes on Individual Documents ..............................................................................................65 5.5 The Bureau of Narâm-ilî ................................................................................................................ 66 5.6 The Bureau of Lu-diœira, Son of ÌR-ñula ....................................................................................... 67 5.6.1 Notes on Individual Documents ..............................................................................................67