Un testo paleo-babilonese inedito dell’Università di Messina

Abstract

The Old-Babylonian text here published is a long list of personal names preceded for
the most part by a Winkelhaken, whereas the last two personal names in the verso are preceded by the numbers 15 and 14. In comparison with some similar texts already publlished, in which there is a series of numbers followed by personal names, one should presume that the text here published is also a list of people who supplied one or more labourers, most probably some common «éren». Moreover one should suppose that the «1 bán ninda» followed by personal names in some lines of the text could mean «prebend»; in fact when one had a prebend in a temple, he was entitled to receive the «bread» of the sacrifice afterwards. Therefore, people mentioned in the text probably belong to the perssonnel of a temple which provides some labourers, probably to the same temple, and/or receives food assignments from the temple. Although the text is not dated, some elements allow us to suppose that it has been written short after the time of Hammurabi. With regard to the provenience of the text, one could suppose that it comes from the South of Babylon, probably from Larsa.