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 (93) BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVINI-IONS ABRU M. Scli(~rs:A ltbubyloniscbe Rechjs~~rk~tn(Vdo~ri(~ie rasiatisc11e Uibliothck, 5), L.eipzig, 1913 . ADD C. H. W. Johns: Assyrian Deeds and Llo~uments( 3 vols.). AJSL American journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. BA Beifrage cur Assyrioiogie. BAD G. A. Barton: Sumerian Business and Administrative Llocu- merits Jrom the Earliest Times to ibe Dynasty of Agade (UMBS, Vol. IX, No. I), Philadelphia, 1915. A. Ungnad: Babylonische Briefe aus der Zeit der Hammurapi- Dynasfie (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek), Leipzig, 1914. C. Bezold: Catalogue of fhe Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyun- jik Collection in the British Museunz (5 vols.). Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Series A. A. Ungnad: Babylonian Letters of the Hamn~urapi Period (UMBS, Vol. VII), Philadelphia, 1915. British Museum. R. E. Briinnow: A Classijied List of Cuneiform Ideographs, Leyden, 1887. C. E. Keyser: Cuneiform Bullaof the Third Millennium B. C. (Bab. Records in the Library of J. P. Morgan, Pt. Ill), New York, 1914. CBS Catalogue of the Babylonian Section. All tablets here quoted belong to the First Dynasty of Babylon and will be published by me in a volume of the present Series. CPN A. T. Clay: Personal Names of the Cassite Period (Yale Or. Series, Vol. I), New Haven, 1912. Cuneiform Textsf rom Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Allotte de la Fuie: Documentr Prisargoniques, 1908-12. DSGl F. 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Biblio- thek, Vol. XXI), Leipzig, 1907. A. Poebel: Historical Texts (UMBS, Vol. IV, No. I), Phila- delphia, 1914. lnventaire des Tablettcs de Tello Conservles au Musle Implrial Ottoman (Mission Franqaise de Chaldee). Divided: F. Thureau-Dangin: Textes de l'gpoque d'Agadl, Paris, 1910. 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. LAD E. Chiera: Legal and Adnzinistratiae Documents from Nippur, chiejly from the Dynasties of Isin and Larsa (UMBS, Vol. VIII, No. I), Philadelphia, 1914. LBD A. Poebel: Babylonian Legal and Bz~sinessD ocuments from the Time of the First Dylzasty of Babylon, chiefly from Nippur (BE, Vol. VI, Pt. 2), Philadelphia, 1907. F. Thureau-Dangin: Letires et Contracts de l'zpoque de la Premihre Dynastie Babylonien?ze, Paris, 1910. LT D S. Langdon: Tablets from the Archives of Drehem, Paris, 191 I. MA HWB W. 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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, ' Cf Pt I, p jz (101) 102 UNIVERSITY MUSEUM-BARYLONLAN SECTION 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: