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Harrānu Texts from the British Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

John D. A. MacGinnis
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The Neo-Babylonian contracts in which one or more parties put up money to fund shares in a harrānu (caravan, trade venture) have been studied in detail by Lanz in his book Die neubabylonische harrānu-Geschäftsurkunden (1971). The present texts come from the Sippar Collection of the British Museum, two from Sippar and one from Borsippa.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 56 , 1994 , pp. 117 - 121
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1994 

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References

1 I would like to convey my thanks to the managers of the University of Cambridge Johns Fund for the support which made possible research on this and other Neo-Babylonian topics, and to M. Dandamayev, S. Zawadzki, M. Jursa, H. Bongenaar, and N. Czechowicz for reading the manuscript and suggesting a number of improvements.

2 Other published harrānu texts from Sippar known to me are CT 55 105 and 118; Nbpl. (ZA 4) 12; Cam. 412; Evetts, Appendix no. 5; AfO 16, p. 43 Google Scholar and no. 9; VS 4 163. BM 49906 reads Kaskal Igi-rt followed by six lines blank except for the numbers 10 and 15 alternating at the end of each. A further but fragmentary text may be found in BM 71055 and possibly also BM 49553. Further harrānu texts published since Lanz's work are: Joannès, , OECT 12 A. 110, A. 153 Google Scholar; McEwan, , OECT 10, 33, 182, 273 Google Scholar, ROMCT 10; Stigers, , JCS 28, No. 33Google Scholar; Walker, CT 51 49 Google Scholar; Weisberg, YOS 17 10 Google Scholar; note also texts missed by Lanz, Clay, BE 8 138 Google Scholar and Holt, , ASJL 27, p. 194 RCT 3Google Scholar. For a discussion of the harrănu texts from Larsa see Beaulieu, , Orientalia 60 (1991), pp. 69–71 Google Scholar.

3 Oppenheim, A. L., “Essay on Overland Trade in the 1st Millennium BC”, JCS 21 (1967)Google Scholar; Oelsner, J., “Die neu- und spätbabylonische Zeit” in Archi, A., Circulation of Goods in Non-Palatial Context in the Ancient Near East (1984)Google Scholar.

4 See Dandamayev, M. A., “Die Rolle des tamkārum in Babylonien”, in Klengel, H. (ed.), Beiträge zur Sozialen Struktur des alten Vorderasiens (1971)Google Scholar.

5 tamkāu: Nbn. 612, 749, 887 Google Scholar; CT 22 3 Google Scholar; CT 55 483, 608, 763 Google Scholar; CT 57 23, 680 Google Scholar (reading lúDAM.G[AR] in 1.3); PSBA 9 (1886–1887), p. 273 1.3Google Scholar tamkār immeri: Dar. 141. rab tamkārē: Nbn. 464 (reading GAL lúDAM.(OAR).MEŠ in 1.6 [collated]); CT 55 823 Google Scholar; No. 118 in my forthcoming work on letter orders from the Ebabbara; tamkār šarri: CT 55 96, 118 Google Scholar: for CT 55 118 6–7 Google Scholar we offer the restoration [md30-ŠEš]-MU A-Šú šá m I-ni-d[a-i-na]-a lú DAM.GÀR [LUGAL] for which cf. CT 55 96, 3–4 Google Scholar.

6 CT 55 118 Google Scholar, reading lúDAM!(copy): NAGAR). GÀR in 1.8. Another possibility is Nbpl. (ZA 4) 12, restoring [lÚDAM].GÀR in 1.6.