The Lexical Text from Ekalte

Excavation at Ekalte. © Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft"

Excavations at Ekalte have yielded one lexical text (Tall Munbaqa-Ekalte 2, 81A), a bilingual fragment of the list of professions MB Lu₂.

The cuneiform texts from Ekalte are dated slightly earlier than the corpus from nearby Emar, just south of Ekalte. Not surprisingly, the Lu₂ fragment is closely related to the lists of professions from Emar.

27 Dec 2019

Further reading

Beckman, Gary 2008 A Small Town in Late Bronze Age Syria. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 98: 211-20. Download [http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ZA.2008.013] (subscription needed).
Durand, Jean-Marie 2003 Chroniques du Moyen-Euphrate 2. Relecture de documents d'Ekalte, Émar et Tuttul. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 97: 141-80.
Mayer, Walter 2001 Tall Munbaqa-Ekalte 2: die Texte. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-gesellschaft 102. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag.

Niek Veldhuis

Niek Veldhuis, 'The Lexical Text from Ekalte', Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, The DCCLT Project, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/lexicallistsperiods/middlebabylonian/ekalte/]

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