Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur.

AuthorMOLINA, MANUEL
PositionReview

Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur. By BERTRAND LAFONT and FATMA YILDIZ. Publications de l'Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul, vol. 77. Leiden: NEDERLANDS HISTORISCH-ARCHAEOLOGISCH INSTITUUT TE ISTANBUL, 1996. Pp. 395, illustrations.

The book under review (TCTI 2) is the second part of TCTI 1 published in 1989, and completes the edition of the Ur III texts catalogued by H. de Genouillac in ITT 2/1. B. Lafont and F. Yildiz have published here, as usual in exemplary fashion, a large number of Ur III administrative texts.

The volume includes an "Introduction" (pp. 7-9 in French, pp. 11-12 in Turkish) where the authors explain their criteria for the transliteration of numbers, many other aspects regarding the structure of the book, and the conventions used. They also reiterate here that Ur III documents are "veritables materiaux pour l'histoire," Next follows a careful and precise chronological and thematic classification of the texts (pp. 13-28).

One misses here a list of those texts previously published. This information can only be found with the transliteration of each text. There the following references should be added:

L. 2751: T. Fish and M. Lambert, "'Verification' dans la Bureaucratic sumerienne" RA 57 (1963): 96, no. 15.

L. 3372: P. Michalowski, Letters from Early Mesopotamia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), 99, no. 186.

L. 3390: M. Lambert, "Les archives de Urabba fils de Bazig," RA 54 (1960): 128, no. 31.

L. 3418: P. Michalowski, Letters, 110, no. 220.

L. 3538: H. Neumann, "Zum privaten Werkvertrag im Ruhmen der neusumerischen handwerklichen Produktion," AoF 23 (1996): 257-59.

L. 3600: P. Michalowski, Letters, 60, no. 89.

L. 3608: P. Michalowski, Letters, 98, no. 185.

L. 3649: H. de Genouillac, "Notes lexicographiques" RA 7 (1909): 161.

L. 3704: G. Pettinato, "Aggiunte al corpus di lettere amministrative della Terza Dinastia di Ur," OA 7 (1968): 171, no. 5.

L. 3757: M. Lambert, "L'usage de l'argent-metal a Lagash au temps de la [III.sup.e] Dynastie d'Ur (suite)," RA 57 (1963): 197, no. 52.

L. 3859: B. Lafont, "L'extraction du minerai de cuivre en Iran a la fin du [III.sup.e] millenaire," in Tablettes et images aux Pays de Sumer et d' Akkad. Melanges offerts a Monsieur H. Linet, ed. O. Tunca and D. Deheselle (Liege: Universite de Liege, 1996), 89.

L. 4123: M. Lambert, RA 57 (1963): 197, no. 53.

L. 4338 ["epoque akkadienne"]: G. Pettinato, OA 7...

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