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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
+ | The Middle Babylonian period (1500-1000) is divided into two successive dynasties: | ||
+ | The Kassite dynasty (ca. 1500-1150) and the 2nd Dynasty of Isin (1157-1025). | ||
+ | 90% of all the tablets from the Kassite period, amounting to more than 12,000 tablets, come from Nippur. Nippur was a provincial capital and the seat of Enlil, the most important god during the Kassite period. | ||
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+ | The archives mostly stem from the second half of the Kassite dynasty (ca. 1350-1150). | ||
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+ | Small numbers of Middle Babylonian documents originate in Babylon, Dūr-Enlilē, | ||
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===== Overview of corpus ===== | ===== Overview of corpus ===== | ||
+ | More than 600 letters are preserved from excavations in Nippur. Nearly all of them contain administrative content. | ||
+ | The majority of these letters is stored in two collections: | ||
+ | To a lesser extent there are Middle Babylonian letters from Nippur in the Hilprecht collection in Jena. Additionally a few letters can be found in the collection of the British Museum, London, and in the Louvre, Paris. | ||
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+ | Apart from Nippur 1 Middle Babylonian letter was found in Tell Imlihiye, and 7-9 letters were found in Babylon. Furthermore 6 Middle Babylonian letters from Dūr-Kurigalzu and 11 letters from Dūr-Enlilē are published so far. | ||
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+ | Additionally 350 international letters (including inventories) from the Middle Babylonian period were found in Akhetaten (el-ʿAmārna), | ||
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===== Basic Typology ===== | ===== Basic Typology ===== | ||
+ | The Kassite letters were sent between high officials of the Kassite empire. | ||
+ | The biggest part of these administrative documents are // | ||
+ | In a number of // | ||
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+ | There are also // | ||
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+ | The // | ||
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+ | In // | ||
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===== Example ===== | ===== Example ===== | ||
+ | ^[[http:// | ||
+ | |Obv. 1. |//a-na < | ||
+ | |2. |//um-ma// < | ||
+ | |3. |< | ||
+ | |4. |//la ta-ma-ḫa-ar// | ||
+ | |5. |// | ||
+ | |6. |// | ||
+ | |7. |Ì.GEŠ //a-na// É < | ||
+ | |8. |//ù at-ta// < | ||
+ | |9. |// | ||
+ | |10. |//a-na// É < | ||
+ | |11. |//ù ṭe-em// ŠE.BAR |And (furthermore): | ||
+ | |12. |//mi-im-ma ul ta-áš-pu-ra// | ||
+ | |13. |//ù < | ||
+ | |14. |//ša áš-pu-rak-ku// | ||
+ | |Rev. 1. |NINDA //ù// KAŠ //a-na pi-i//|Give (him) bread and beer according to (the number of) his men! | | ||
+ | |2. |// | ||
+ | |3. |//ù// NINDA.KASKAL-// | ||
+ | |4. |// | ||
+ | |5. |// | ||
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+ | (return to [[letters|Letters from Mesopotamia]])\\ | ||
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===== Introductory Literature ===== | ===== Introductory Literature ===== | ||
+ | Aro, J. and I. Bernhardt: Mittelbabylonische Briefe in der Hilprecht-Sammlung. In: //WZJ// 8, 565-574, pl. I-XV. | ||
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+ | Parpola, S.: //Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal// | ||
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+ | Salonen, E.: //Die Gruss- und Höflichkeitsformeln in babylonisch-assyrischen Briefen// (SO 38, 1967). Helsinki. | ||
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+ | Sassmannshausen, | ||
+ | Waschow, H.: Babylonische Briefe aus der Kassitenzeit. In: //MAOG// 10/1, 3-70. | ||
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