A Sargonic Exercise Tablet Listing “Places of Inanna” and Personal Names
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6077522 |
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| Authors | Jana Matuszak (0000-0002-4676-4132, Institute of History of Material Culture), Hanan Abd Alhamza Alessawe (Baghdad Medical City) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Pages | 27-52 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/730480 |
| OpenAlex | W4400192697 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article publishes a remarkable school tablet, probably from Sargonic Umma, which contains two lexical exercises. While the reverse appears to be an ad hoc list of personal names, many of which start with or contain the sign a, the obverse compiles “places” (ki) where certain mythological events involving the goddess Inanna had occurred. Unusually for lexical lists, each of these places is described in a complete sentence following a loosely alternating structure, which gives the list almost literary qualities. After discussing the list-like vs. literary features and comparing the compilation of places to a similar lexical fragment of Ur III date and the Early Dynastic Word List F, we analyze the mythological allusions and potential ritual associations
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| Highly cited | No |
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