Of God(S), Trees, Kings, and Scholars

STUDIA ORIENTALIA PUBLISHED BY THE FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY 106 OF GOD(S), TREES, KINGS, AND SCHOLARS Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola Edited by Mikko Luukko, Saana Svärd and Raija Mattila HELSINKI 2009 OF GOD(S), TREES, KINGS AND SCHOLARS clay or on a writing board and the other probably in Aramaic onleather in andtheotherprobably clay oronawritingboard ME FRONTISPIECE 118882. Assyrian officialandtwoscribes;oneiswritingincuneiformo . n COURTESY TRUSTEES OF T H E BRITIS H MUSEUM STUDIA ORIENTALIA PUBLISHED BY THE FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY Vol. 106 OF GOD(S), TREES, KINGS, AND SCHOLARS Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola Edited by Mikko Luukko, Saana Svärd and Raija Mattila Helsinki 2009 Of God(s), Trees, Kings, and Scholars: Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola Studia Orientalia, Vol. 106. 2009. Copyright © 2009 by the Finnish Oriental Society, Societas Orientalis Fennica, c/o Institute for Asian and African Studies P.O.Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki F i n l a n d Editorial Board Lotta Aunio (African Studies) Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Arabic and Islamic Studies) Tapani Harviainen (Semitic Studies) Arvi Hurskainen (African Studies) Juha Janhunen (Altaic and East Asian Studies) Hannu Juusola (Semitic Studies) Klaus Karttunen (South Asian Studies) Kaj Öhrnberg (Librarian of the Society) Heikki Palva (Arabic Linguistics) Asko Parpola (South Asian Studies) Simo Parpola (Assyriology) Rein Raud (Japanese Studies) Saana Svärd (Secretary of the Society) Editorial Secretary Lotta Aunio Typesetting Noora Ohvo ISSN 0039-3282 ISBN 978-951-9380-72-8 Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy Jyväskylä 2009 CONTENTS Preface .....................................................................................................................xi Bibliography of the Publications of Simo Parpola ................................................xv NEO -ASSYRI an STUDIES Eunuchen als Thronprätendenten und Herrscher im alten Orient ............................1 CLAUS AMBO S The Origins of the Artistic Interactions between the Assyrian Empire and North Syria Revisited ...............................................................................................9 SANNA ARO Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian: Rejecting Some Proposals .......................19 ZACK CH ERR Y “To Speak Kindly to him/them” as Item of Assyrian Political Discourse .............27 FREDERICK MARIO FALE S Osservazioni sull’orticoltura di epoca neo-assira ..................................................41 SABRINA FAVAR O Assurbanipal at Der ................................................................................................51 ECKART FRA H M A “New” Cylinder Inscription of Sargon II of Assyria from Melid.......................65 GRANT FRAM E “Wiping the Pot Clean”: On Cooking Pots and Polishing Operations in Neo-Assyrian Sources ............................................................................................83 SALVATORE GASP A The Camels of Tiglath-pileser III and the Arabic Definite Article .........................99 JAAKKO HÄMEEN -ANTTILA Informationen aus der assyrischen Provinz Dūr-Šarrukku im nördlichen Babylonien ...........................................................................................................103 KARL H EIN Z KESSLE R A Neo-Assyrian Royal Funerary Text ..................................................................111 TH EODORE KWASMAN A Happy Son of the King of Assyria: Warikas and the Çineköy Bilingual (Cilicia) ............................................................................127 GIOVANNI B. LANFRANC H I Remembrance at Assur: The Case of the Dated Aramaic Memorials ..................151 ALASDAIR LIVIN G STON E The Chief Singer and Other Late Eponyms .........................................................159 RAI J A MATTIL A Family Ties: Assurbanipal’s Family Revisited ....................................................167 JAMIE NOVOTNY & JENNIFER SIN G LETAR Y Ašipâ Again: A Microhistory of an Assyrian Provincial Administrator ..............179 BRADLEY J. PARKE R Neo-Assyrian Texts from Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon: A Preliminary Report ....193 OLOF PEDERSÉ N Noseless in Nimrud: More Figurative Responses to Assyrian Domination ........201 BARBARA NEVLIN G PORTE R The Assyrian King and his Scholars: The Syro-Anatolian and the Egyptian Schools .....................................................................................221 KAREN RADNE R Fez, Diadem, Turban, Chaplet: Power-Dressing at the Assyrian Court ...............239 JULIAN READ E Die Inschriften des Ninurta-bēlu-uṣur, Statthalters von Kār-Salmānu-ašarēd. Teil I .....................................................................................................................265 WOLF G AN G RÖLLI G Who Were the “Ladies of the House” in the Assyrian Empire? ..........................279 SAANA SVÄRD & MIKKO LUUKK O I Feared the Snow and Turned Back ....................................................................295 GRETA VAN BUYLAER E ASSYRIOLOGIC A L an D IN TERDISCIPLI na RY STUDIES Maqlû III 1-30: Internal Analysis and Manuscript Evidence for the Revision of an Incantation ...................................................................................307 TZ VI ABUSC H Some Otherworldly Journeys in Mesopotamian, Jewish, Mandaean and Yezidi Traditions ..................................................................................................315 AMAR ANNU S The Diverse Enterprises of Šumu-ukin from Babylon ........................................327 MU H AMMAD DANDAMAYE V “Armer Mann von Nippur”: ein Werk der Krisenliteratur des 8. Jh. v. Chr. ........333 MANFRIED DIETRIC H Two Middle Assyrian Contracts Housed in Istanbul ...........................................353 VEYSEL DONBA Z Two Bilingual Incantation Fragments ..................................................................361 MARK H AM J. GELLE R Wilhelm Lagus: A Pioneer of Cuneiform Research in Finland ...........................367 TAPANI HARVIAINE N Wisdom as Mediatrix in Sirach 24: Ben Sira, Love Lyrics, and Prophecy ..........377 MARTTI NISSINE N A Mesopotamian Omen in the Cycle of Cyrus the Great ....................................391 ANTONIO PANAIN O with an “Appendix on Cuneiform Sources” by GIAN PIETRO BASELLO Some Reflections on Metaphor, Ambiguity and Literary Tradition .....................399 SIMONETTA PONC H I A Reflections on the Translatability of the Notion of Holiness ...............................409 BEATE PON G RAT Z -LEISTE N Altorientalisches im Buch Judith .........................................................................429 ROBERT ROLLIN G E R Bibliography ........................................................................................................445 Abbreviations ��502 A NEO-ASSYRIAN ROYAL FUNERARY TEXT Theodore Kwasman The tablet K 7856 was first mentioned by B. Meissner in 1898 and then edited more than thirty years later by E. Ebeling in Tod und Leben nach den Vorstellungen der Babylonier (TuL).1 In 1987, J. MacGinnis joined K 6323 (ADD 941) to K 7856.2 This exceptional join revealed that an ADD text that was ostensibly an administrative document was actually part of a long list of grave goods. Afterwards, the present writer joined the fragments K 14241 and 80-7-19,122 (ADD 978). The last join confirmed MacGinnis’ suspicion that other ADD tablets might belong to the text. In 1999, B.M. Nasrabadi published an edition of the tablet with the new joins.3 The text is composed in Standard Babylonian. The tablet is divided into narrow columns with vertical double rulings. One horizontal line is preserved that divides the text from a grave good list. The scribe mostly uses standard forms of Neo- Assyrian signs. In some cases, he has left out strokes and although his hand is steady the not quite completed signs indicate that the tablet was written somewhat in haste. The lines have not always been measured correctly causing cramped endings with squeezed signs sometimes extending beyond the rulings. The text is written in the first person. The text commemorates the death of an Assyrian king, whose identity has not been preserved. W. von Soden, in a review of TuL, suggested that the king was either Esarhaddon or Assurbanipal.4 A. George has expressed the view that the dead king was most likely Esarhaddon.5 The document has a number of difficulties, partly due to the way the scribe has written certain signs and the fragmentary condition of the text which does not allow for a complete reconstruction. This is indeed unfortunate since many of the grave lists are lacking the final sections which would normally provide information describing the ceremonial activity. The intriguing content of the text, however, 1 Meissner 1898: 60–62, Ebeling 1931: 56–58 (no. 12). 2 MacGinnis 1987: 1–12. 3 Nasrabadi 1999. The text in this edition has been improperly collated and the new joins were either read from a photograph or ADD copies resulting in misreadings. In addition, the joins were not properly credited. 4 von Soden 1936: 254–255. 5 George 2003: 485, see also Frahm 1999: 86 n. 65. 112 THEODORE KWASMAN which concerns the burial of a king, provides a rare insight into Neo-Assyrian funerary practices. The text begins with a lament that is not well preserved. A major part of the text is composed of grave lists. Each list probably contained the following elements: a) a list

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