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p. 32. This text presents a good example of the ambiguities in orthography that persist in these Ur III texts, where the sign ru may be /ru/ (related to /ri/), sub (a very common value of ru) or even /ru/ or /ri/ as forms of /a-ru/ or rig 7 , corresponding to Akkadian saraku, which can be used idiomatically to describe meting out punishment. Sometimes a later parallel, with a more explicit orthography, can provide evidence for how the Sumerian writer understood the term. Six previously published similar texts (mostly from Nippur) are reedited in an appendix, with transliteration and very brief comments. In No. 4 (p. 76) Geller comments that kas-sìg is presumably for kas-sag. I am reminded of kas sig/ sig 5 . See the discussion in the CAD s.v. billatu. This collection of Ur III incantations in the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection in Jena is a good illustration of the extent to which Hermann Hilprecht selected some of the choicest Nippur texts for his personal collection (considered a gift from the Sultan). This edition makes these important, but sometimes enigmatic, Ur III literary texts available in an exemplary fashion. The late Johannes van Dijk as well as Markham Geller and J

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Author

Robert D. Biggs

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)