“The Shepherd, What Has He Done?”
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Uri Gabbay
Abstract
The article publishes an Old Babylonian syllabically written tablet of the Eršema su₈-ba-de₃ ta an-ak, “The shepherd, what has he done?” with duplicates from the first millennium BCE stemming from Nineveh. The composition laments the disappearance of Dumuzi.
Acknowledgments
I thank Annette Zgoll, Annika Cöster-Gilbert, and Bénédicte Cuperly, with whom I read part of the text in Göttingen during a visit in June 2019, for suggestions on readings and interpretations of the text. I am grateful to Pascal Attinger, Paul Delnero, Jana Matuszak, Jeremiah Peterson, Walther Sallaberger, and an anonymous reviewer, who read earlier versions of this article and made valuable suggestions and corrections. The tablets K.3506 and K.5024+K.8445 are published here by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. I thank Dr. Jon Taylor from the British Museum for confirming the join K.5024+K.8445 for me. The tablet in the private collection is published here by courtesy of its owner. I thank David Owen for sending me his photographs of the tablet, some of them published here with his permission. The copies of the tablets in this article are according to photographs (and the exact placement of the join of K.5024 with K.8445 in the copy, although confirmed, is an approximation according to individual photographs of the tablets). My research on this article was funded by the Israel Science Foundation (no. 1319/19).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- The Relief of Harput
- Kultszenen – Bankettszenen: Die Akteure und die Paraphernalien
- A Middle Assyrian Fragment Mentioning Iron from Kassite Nippur
- The Power of Human Speech in Hittite Anatolia
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- Presents in the Palace during the Middle Assyrian Period (1500–1000 BC)
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- Obligations de travail dans les économies palatiales du Bronze récent
- “Both my Cleansed Hands”
- Everything Must Go
