Lists of Personal Names From the Temple School of Nippur. Lists of Akkadian Personal Names

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UNIVEIISITY OF PENNSYLVI\SIA
THI;; UNIVEIiSITY IZJIUSEUM
PUBLICATIONS OF ''HE '.P,:\RYLONIAN SIK'I'ION
VOI,. XI No. 2
LISTS OF PERSONAT, NAMES FROM
THE TEMPLE SCHOOL OF NIPPUR
LISTS 01.' AL(I<P,:\DIAN PERSONAL NAMES
BY
EDWI~RDC flIkRA
PHILADEL.PHIA
PUBLISI-IED BY THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
1916

CONTENTS
PAGE
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS ........... 95
PREFACE ........................................... 99
INTRODUCTION .................................... IOI
CONTENTSO F THE VOLUM.E. ............. .. ...... 101
SIMILARD OCUMEN.T.S. ............... .. ....... .. . 162
SPECIALD OCUMENT..S. ........................... 105
LANGUAG..E. ................ .. ....... .... . . . 10 6
ORDERO F TIIE NAME.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
THEN AMESO F THE GODS. ...................... 108
THEA MORITICLI ST. ................ .. ..... .. ... I I I
TRANSLITERATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS ....... 118
AMORITICN AME.S. ............................... 118
AKKADIANNA ME.S. .............................. 125
GLOSSARY OF AMORlTlC NAME ELEMENTS. ... 148
GLOSSARY OF AKKADIAN NAME ELEMENTS ... 154
DESCRIPTION OF THE DOCUMENTS ............. 167
LIST OF DUPL-ICATES NOT PUBLISHED .......... 173
NUMBERS OF THE CATALOGUE OF THE BABY-
LONIAN SECTION ........................... 175
AUTOGRAPH PLATES ................ SSXVIII-LXVI 11
PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS ........L XIX-LXX
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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVINI-IONS
ABRU M. Scli(~rs:A ltbubyloniscbe Rechjs~~rk~tn(Vdo~ri(~ie rasiatisc11e
Uibliothck, 5), L.eipzig, 1913 .
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Dynasfie (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek), Leipzig, 1914.
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(UMBS, Vol. VII), Philadelphia, 1915.
British Museum.
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GTD H. de G6nouillac: Tablettes de Drlhem, Paris, 191 I.
J A journal Asialiqz~e.
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society.
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J RAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
H AV Hilprecht Anniversary Volume, 1909.
I-IGT A. Poebel: Historical and Gramnzatical Texts (UMB>, Vol. V),
Philadelphia, 1914.
G. A. Barton: Haverford Library Collection of Cuneijorm
Tablets, or Documents from the Temple Archives of Telloh
(3 parts), Philadelphia, 1905-14.
E. Huber: Die Personennamen in den Keilschrifturkunden
aus der Zeit der Konige von Ur und Nisin (Assyr. Biblio-
thek, Vol. XXI), Leipzig, 1907.
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delphia, 1914.
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I-I. de Gknouillac: Texles de 1'E'poque d'Agadi et de l'gpoque
d'Ur, Paris, 191I .
In 111 H. de Gknouillac: Textes de Z'gpoqzce d'Ur, Paris, 1912.
In IV L. Delaporte: Textes de Z'L?poque d'Ur, Paris, 1912.
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chiejly from the Dynasties of Isin and Larsa (UMBS, Vol.
VIII, No. I), Philadelphia, 1914.
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the Time of the First Dylzasty of Babylon, chiefly from
Nippur (BE, Vol. VI, Pt. 2), Philadelphia, 1907.
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Premihre Dynastie Babylonien?ze, Paris, 1910.
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Biblothek, Vol. XI), Leipzig, 1893.
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The present work is the direct continuation of Volume XI,
Part I of the present series, with the title: A Syllabary of
Personal Names. To that book I refer for general introductions
to the special class of documents which are here published.
In its turn, this is to be followed by Part I I I: Lists of
Sumerian Personal Names, which will also embody a general
index of all names contained in the three parts and a list of all
the names of gods found therein.
I am indebted to Profs. Morris Jastrow, Jr., and J. A.
Montgomery for many suggestions concerning the interpreta-
tion of the Amoritic names. I also wish to express my grati-
tude to Dr. G. B. Gordon, the Director of the University
Museum, for the encouragement and help which he has offered
me in the preparation of this work.
EDWARDC IIIERA.
PHILADELPAHuIgAus,t 1916.
I,
INTRODUCTION
The documents here published are, like those of Part I,
the work of the teachers and pupils of the Temple School of
Nippur. Here, too, we have lists of personal names which have
been compiled for practice in writing. But the arrangement
and content of the two groups of documents are different. While,
as we have seen,' the Syllabary embodies groups of Sumerian,
Akkadian and Amoritic names, here the lists are uniformly of
one language. Moreover, while the purpose of the Syllabary was
that of giving in a brief compass a sample of all the different
name formations, here the scribe merely aims at compiling
long lists of all the "approved" personal names which could be
formed with the same nominal element. Since the number of
"approved" nominal and verbal elements seems to have been
rather limited, the result is that all these lists resemble one
another very much. I11 some cases, except for the change of
the initial element, they would be exactly alike.
We have not recovered all portions of the lists compounded
with *XawzaX (5 rg IT.), a-ad-da (No. 959 ff.), a-bi (No. 1340 ff.),
etc., but we do not miss their loss, because it would be very
easy to restore them completely on the basis of the other lists.
For this very reason, I have omitted to restore them, since this
would have served no practical purpose. The only complete
lists are those beginning with anu, a-hu and a-li.
The uselessness of multiplying such lists forced itself also
upon the Babylonian scribes; they resorted therefore to the
simple expedient of giving only the beginning oT each list,
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comprising from two to four names, and then to abandon it
to begin another one with a different initial element. Cf. Nos.
830 ff.: dU$-ba-ni, "US-na-da, dzlrai'-be?-li, dztraS-na-da,
muf-da-bn-ni, dnu-mui'-da-na-da, dGU-BA-L I L-um-mi, dai'nan-
ilum, etc. It is unfortunate that we have not very many of
these abbreviated lists, because we could gather from them a
goodly number of new or uncommon names of gods.
In another instance a scribe endeavored to shorten his list
simply hy omitting all secondary formations. 'Thus he wrote
a-hi-ellat, and omitted a-hi-ellat-ti, a-hi-ellA(t)-lu; a-hi-la-ni-in,
and left out a-hi-la-ni-in-ni, a-hi-la-ni-in-i'u (cf. text 33 Col. IV
and Nos. 1129f f., 1148f f.).
If we follow the scribe's example and eliminate from the
lists all secondary formations, we find that they are far from
being exhaustive, i. e., from containing all the names that
could have been formed with the given initial element. Several
common elements which were in actual use at the time of the
compilation of these lists are found to be lacking. The only
explanation which seems acceptable is that they were omitted
because not considered appropriate.
Be this as it may, one cannot avoid the conclusion that
these lists are very artificial; in general, no distinction is made
between the special attributes of the different gods. Only in
exceptional cases we find elements which are used exclusively
for one deity. Such are: e-ti-in-ti and i-id-ni-ti? for isVtrir
(740-41), da-Su-zir for a-hi (I I Z ~ )p,a -a-. . . ., i'u-z~b-.. . ., for
e^-a (697, 699); i'e-me-a, la-i-da, sukkallum for anu (507-08; 49 I).
A few tablets, very closely related with those here pub-
lished, are to be found in a volume by V. Scheil under the title: