Keywords
lexical list, Fara, Early Dynastic, profession, school tablet

§1. Each of the Early Dynastic lexical ‘professions’ lists ED Lu C and D has been known to Assyriology from a single source from Fara, published by A. Deimel in WVDOG 43 (= SF) as numbers 47 and 48 respectively. They were re-published in MSL 12 (1969), which contains editions of professions lists from earliest times to the first millennium B.C. The editions of these two lists there profited from updated and improved readings. However, the source tablets were not collated. During a visit to Berlin in February 2000, the present author was able to collate the tablets, the results of which are presented below. The text of ED Lu C in particular has changed significantly. Only limited notes will be given here; the detailed analysis will be left to M. Krebernik, who has begun a major work on all the Fara school tablets. Notes provided in MSL 12, 15-16, are not repeated here.

§2. The lists are an intriguing mix of familiar, well-attested professions and more enigmatic terms, some of which lend themselves to plausible interpretation, while others are more difficult to comprehend.

VAT 12619 (SF 47; ED Lu C)

§3. This list is now also known from a prism fragment from Nippur (6N-T 920). This fragment will be published by M. Civil in the official volume of 6N-T texts. Thanks are due to Civil for sending me information and a photo of the fragment. This Ur III(?) duplicate demonstrates that the identification of obverse and reverse by Deimel was incorrect and must be reversed. On account of this and some other problems with line division, the line numbering requires change; the numbering of MSL 12 is given in brackets following the new line number. Variants from the prism fragment are not given here (see text on-line).

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VAT 12553 (SF 48; ED Lu D)

§6. Many of the entries in this list are obscure. A few are found in other lists of this period e.g., l.1: i₃-ra₂-ra₂ (ED Lu E 80), l. 14: lu₂-sa-gaz (ED Lu E 153), or are familiar from contemporary administrative documents (see text on-line).

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Version: 25 February 2003

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