The Lexical Texts from Old Babylonian Adab
Old Babylonian exercise tablet from Adab: meat cuts. Obverse (in teacher's hand) and reverse (in student's hand) carry the same text. A 1166. Photograph © Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
The city of Adaba (modern Bismaya) was excavated by an expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago directed by Edgar Banks between 1903 and 1906. The finds were divided between the Oriental Institute and the Istanbul museum. Among the Old Babylonian tablets now at the Oriental Institute are a number of round exercises (lentils) and prism fragments with lexical and literary extracts. Only one of these has been published so far, an extract from the list of meat cuts (A 1166). Among the Istanbul tablets are two fragments of the sign list Ea.
Dated Old Babylonian tablets from the site derive in majority from the period around the middle of the long reign of Rīm-Sîn I of Larsa (around 1800 BCE).
27 Dec 2019Further reading
- Lauinger, Jacob. 2012. "Appendix C: The Old Babylonian Tablets from Adab in the Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum." In Bismaya: Recovering the Lost City of Adab, ed. Karen L Wilson, 147–154. Oriental Institute Publications 138. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Niek Veldhuis
Niek Veldhuis, 'The Lexical Texts from Old Babylonian Adab', Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, The DCCLT Project, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/lexicallistsperiods/oldbabylonian/adab/]