THE BABYLONIAN EXPEDITION

FROX THE Ti-:-.D.IPLE ARCHIVFA OF NIPPUII.
The letters published in this volume may be conveniently subdivided into three
classes :
(a) Letters of diverse writers addressed a-nu he-h-ia, "TO MY LORD," i.e., letters
written by various royal and Temple officials and addressed TO THE ICING, NOS. 1-74.
(b) One' letter from a king (LUGAI,) to Amel-Marduk, or, more specifically,
a letter of King Shagarakti-Shuriash to his sheriff-in-chief and attorney of state
(G~.EN.NA), No. 75, see pp. 132ff.
(c) Letters of several writers to certain persons named in the address; in other
words, letters constituting an official correspondence bet,ween officers of thc Temple
and the State, Nos. 76ff.
For the sake of convenience and in order to show the fundamental difference
between the letters of Class (a) and those of Class (c), as regards their "address"
and "greeting," we begin with the letters between Temple and State officials. Among
these letters we find:
1. OneQddressed by a father to his son. Both hold official positions in storehouses
(karri), but neither the name of the father nor that of the son is given.
2. One3 written by a certain " iluA-shur-shum-$~r(KAR) to the governor4
" il"Er~-lil-[b&l( = EN)-nishdm""-shu]; who flourished at the time of Kadashman-
Turgu.
3. Two written during the reign of Burua-Buriash by the celebrated trader in
slaves, " iluEn-lil-ki-di-ni,%nd addressed
111 all probability No. 93 is a irl~grrlent of a royal letter.
"11. 76. For a trnrlslation see below, p. 144.
"0. 77.
'Tile b&l pibiiti; this iollows iron, thc greeting in 1. 5, zi a-na pa-&a-l[i-ica] lu-ii shubmu.
' Thus I propose to r d his name, identilying him wit11 the btl T/ihOli ~nentioned in R. E., XIV, 99a : 16, 41; cf.
ibid., 11. 17, 20, 42 (dated the 11th yem ai Kadashman-Turgu). Ile was a conternporsry ol the l~aziinu mI'i-di-nu-d
and of *Bana-a-si~a-'~~~arduk, the writer of So. 9, see p. 5.
"or iurth~r details see below, pp. 54ff.