On Some Old Assyrian Cereal Names

Bibliographic Data

ID3961939
AuthorsHildegard Lewy (corresponding author)
Year1956
Volume76
Issue4
Pages201
Publication date1956-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/596146
OpenAlexW2330912738
LanguageEN
Citations received8

T]IE DESIGNATIONS of cereals occurring most frequently in the Old Assyrian texts are uttutum (gen.: uttitim, acc.: uttatam ) , se'um, arsatum,1 and GIG. As it is a well-known fact that the names of plants and particularly of Gramineae are applied in various languages and dialects to different species,2 the meaning of these Old Assyrian terms must be inferred from the Old Assyrian texts alone without regard to their signification in sources from Babylonia and other regions adjacent to Assyria. An indication as to the use made in the Rultepe material of the term uttutum can be obtained from a comparison of the texts TC 87 and ICE 13. On the reverse of the former tablet we read: is-tu bttf !)3 ELi-da-ar X+151 karpat ar-sa-tz ta-al-qt um-ma a-ta-ma S+16a-na 10 umtmt t-ta-at( !)3-ka S+l7a-na-da-na-ku-um su-ma la a-ta-ad-na-ku-um s+l8ma-al-a kaspirn i-du-nu-ni-ku-ni( !)3 s+lsqb a-na-ku a-da-na-kum S+20i-na ur-ki-im ....... S+22um-ma a-ta-ma S+25a-na ha-ar-pi u-tata-[a]m S+262 na-ru-uq u 6 siqlt kaspam S+27a-dana-kum, From Kidar's house X+l5you took 1 jar of arsatum; thus you said: 'S+l6Within 10 days S+l7I will give you S+l6your uttutum. S+l7If I do not give you (your uttutum), S+18as much silver as they will (usually) give you S+l9I will give you.' S+20Subsequently S+22you said: ' ......... s+25

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