• DOI:10.2307/1359994
• Corpus ID: 163481389

Notes from the Babylonian Collection, II: Old Babylonian HAR-ra

@article{Hallo1982NotesFT,
  title={Notes from the Babylonian Collection, II: Old Babylonian HAR-ra},
  author={William W. Hallo},
  journal={Journal of Cuneiform Studies},
  year={1982},
  volume={34},
  pages={81 - 93}
}

• W. Hallo
• Published 1 January 1982
• History
• Journal of Cuneiform Studies

The late Edgar J. Banks, source of so many collections of cuneiform tablets throughout the United States, left a considerable number of clay cones and tablets to his widow at his death in 1945. When it became known to me in 1970 that she was anxious to dispose of them, contact was quickly made with her and with her daughter, Mrs. James McLachlan. Over a thousand tablets thus came into the possession of the Yale Babylonian Collection, where most of them are now accessioned among the numbers 15339-16384. Subsequently a large number of fragments were turned over to the Collection by the Banks family; these remain to be accessioned. The cones were also examined, but as they all proved to be duplicates of familiar examples of Lagash and Old Babylonian royal inscriptions, only a representative sample was retained (now YBC 16435-16445) and the rest were returned to the family and disposed of elsewhere. Among the tablets thus newly accessioned, by far the majority were neoSumerian archival texts from Umma and PuzrwiT-Dagan (Drehem), with a sprinkling of earlier or later date. But here and there some canonical texts were identified in the group, for example, Inanna and Ebih lines 121-32 (YBC 16037). In some ways the most interesting of these isolated texts is YBC 16317, presented here in copy and transliteration.