THE BABYLONIAN EXPEDITION

FROM THE TEMPLE ARCHIVES OF NIPPUR. 3
year of Nazi-Maruttashl-i.e., during a period of at least ten yearsz-is represented
in our texts as the recipient of four letters,"wo4 of which have been addressed to
him by iiiUNIN.IB(resp. iluMASH)-TUR.USH-SE-na." From the contents and
the tone of these two letters it is apparent that Innanni was the "chief bursar"
of the Temple's storehouses, where nothing could be either received or expended
without his knowledge and consent, and that Errish-apal-iddina was likewise a
person of no mean rank; for he hires workmen, and dares to command Innanni:
"Thou, hurry up, give the seed corn to the city.""pparently then he was at the
head of a city. More th:tn this, he even had certain prefects (hazanndti) under
him, for he requests Innanni in another ,letter: "Thou shalt not accept the sesame
of the prefects."' This latter passage shows that Errish-apal-iddina, because he
had authority over hazanndti, "city prefects," must have been a "governor," a
"b6l ~ah&ti."~ Comparing these results with the texts of B. E., XIV and XV,
we learn that a certain place, called either Ddv i1U2VIN.1B-TUR.USH-SE-mkis
or BZt-m il~MASH'o(resp. rn iiuNZN.ZB")-TUR.USH-SE-na", flourished as a "barley
depot" during the 13th year of Kuri-Galzu'hnd the 19th,13 22d,14 and 24th1"ear
of Nazi-Maruttash-i.e., during a period of at least thirty-two years, including
The statenlent in B. E., XIV, p. 8: "All tl~c t,ahlctsin which this name (i.e., Innannu) occurs, with thc exception
of one, which is dated in the reign of Nazi-Maruttssh, belong to the reignof Kuri-Galzu," will have to he modified
accordingly.
ZCf here also the Bit-"'In-ne-amni (situated in Nippur, B. E., XV, 115 : 5; 135 : 6) whicli flourished from at
least the 22d year of Kuri-Galsu (B. E., XIV, 36 : 2, 11) to the 15th year of Nazi-Maruttash (B. E., XIV, 65 : 7, 14).
Add here to Bit-Innanni of B. E., XV, the following references: 66 : 6 1 117 : 2 1 141 : 22 1155 : 20, 22. A Mdr-rnIn-na-
a[n-ni is mentioned in the 6th and the 7th year of Sl~agaralcti-Shuriash (B. E., XIV, 132 : 22).
Nos. 83-86.
' Nos. 83 and 84.
6 Possibly to be read Errish(t)-apal-iddim. For the possible reading of NIN.IL1 resp. MASH as Errish(t), see
The Monist, XVII (January, 1907), pp. 140ff. Clay reads tlris name either NIN.IB-mGr-iddina (B. E., XIV, p. 49a) or
NIN.IB-apal-iddina (B. E., XV, p. 380,). Why this change, considering that in all the passages lcnown to me tile
writing TUR.USH = apal is found?
8 No. 83 : 24 3 at-ta &a-mu-ut-ta al-ka-am-ma SHE.ZER a-na Glu-ki i-din, see p. 112.
q No. 84 : 3, SHE.GISH.NI sM ha-za-an-na-a-ti la la-ma-bar at-ta, etc., see p. 114.
8 This follows dso from s comparison of, e.g., B. E., XIV, 9Oa (pl. 59 = E. A. H., 195): 4, 7, 16, 26, 29, 41 with
B. E., XIV, 168 : 59, 51, 26, and especially 1. 40, i.e., in this latter tahlct, which is an "inventory of cattle," the "shb
Bit."' iiWN.IB-TUR.USH-SE-na" apparently stands fur @hat "' i12L~~~.~~-~~~.USII-SE-na.
0 B. E., XIV, 18 : 7 (notice that KI-I1 refers back to Ilar- of I. 6). In B. E., XIV, pp. 49a, 586, this name
is read NI~.lR-mi~rid*lina~~ resp. NIN.IB-mdr-iddim, but in LC., p. 58a, D~IT-~ iLu~~N.~B-mdr(read: =pal)-iddinaki.
lo B. E., XIV, 76 : 2.
1' R. E., XIV, 79 : 4 1 81 : 2.
1% B. E., XIV, 18 : 7, 1.
IS B. E., XIV, 76 : 2, 8.
"B. E., XIV, 79 : 4, 11.
16 B. E., XIV, 84 : 2, 9.