Cuneiform Texts from the Campalans Collection (original) (raw)
[The present article presents the publications of a small private collection of cuneiform text in Barcelona.] The Campalans collection of cuneiform text is a small group of eight texts purchased during last years in the antiquity market in Barcelona by Jordi Campalans. All these texts are administrative in nature (one tablet from the Uruk III period; one tablet from ED IIIb period; three tablets dating to the Ur III period and one tablet dating on the OB period) except for school exercise from the Uruk III period and a brick inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II. 1 Text 1. Measurements: 104×67×18. Provenance: unknown. Period: Uruk III. Unsealed. This text has already been published by Monaco 2016 nr. 197 (see also CDLI P464273). The text is an account of barley and emmer to be purchased (ŠAM 2). According to the description given by Monaco (2016: 197) the lower part of the tablet belongs to a different tablet, but examination of the tablet shows clearly that the tablet is almost complete and that all fragments belong to the same tablet (see photo). Monaco will publish a new edition of the text with some improvements and corrections. Text 2. Measurements: 49×26×10. Provenance: unknown. Period: Uruk III. Unsealed. This small tablet is a school exercise related to the texts published in CUSAS 21 156-304 (Monaco 2014: 133-158). Monaco published the texts according the complexity of their content; our text is similar to CUSAS 21 250 to 283. In all these texts the sign N 1 is followed by three (or four) signs on the obverse of the tablet, while the reverse remains uninscribed. A peculiar characteristic of our text is that the dividing line is vertical instead of being horizontal as in all the other texts of this kind (except for CUSAS 1, 8, see Monaco 2007: 45; Monaco 2014: 6). 1. The abbreviations are as in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (http://cdli.ox.ac.uk /wiki/abbreviations_for_ assyriology). I would like to express my gratitude to Jordi Campalans for his assistance in studying these texts and to Wilfred Watson who was kind enough to correct the English. Any faults and errors are my own responsibility.
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