Tablets of the HAR-ra = ḫubullu Series in the Ashmolean Museum

Abstract

The texts which are herein published for the first time, except for three which have previously been published by Professor Langdon, belong to the series of ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu . The series is called ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu from the first line of Tablet I. L. Matous calls the series Gegenstandslisten (lists of objects), although this name applies properly only to some parts of the series. The two first Tablets are lists of juridical forms. The concordance with Ana Ittisu has been given by Professor Landsberger in his work Ana Ittisu , p. x, and he thinks that, although the whole series is named after the first line of Tablet I, Tablets I and II do not belong to the original stock of this series, but actually he gives no evidence for this opinion. They already belonged, however, to the series at a very early date, as the text of the first Tablet and part of Tablet II published by Ch. Jean in R.A. xxxii (1935), 168 f. shows. The name Gegenstandslisten does not properly apply to Tablets XX and XXI which contain names of towns, countries, mountains, and rivers, and Tablet XXIV is a list of men. Neither can this description be properly applied to Tablets XII, XIV, XV, or XVIII, which contain names of animals and parts of the body. Tablets III-VII give names of trees, parts of trees, products of trees, and wooden objects. Tablets VIII-IX contain names of reed and objects made of reed. Tablets X-XII give names of vessels, ovens, clay objects, hides, chemicals, and objects of bronze, copper, silver, and gold. Tablet XVI contains names of stones and Tablet XVII names of plants, Tablet XIX names of wool and vestments, and Tablets XXII-XXIII provisions.