caa a22 4500 386386668 CHVBK 20180307112100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/4200299 doi S002108890000454X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/4200299 The Second Tablet of "Išum and Erra” [Elektronische Daten] The Babylonian poem šar gimir dadmē (perhaps best entitled in English "Išum and Erra”) has been available to scholars in its hitherto most complete form since 1969 in the admirable edition of L. Cagni. Now excavations conducted by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage at Me-Turnat (modern Tell Haddad) have produced a first-millennium tablet in Babylonian script from the Neo-Assyrian Period occupation of the site, giving the text of tablet II of the composition. Previously the second tablet could be reconstructed as three separate broken passages (totalling 112 lines) with two lacunae. The new tablet, IM 121299 (TH 319), restores the first lacuna (four lines in length), completes some broken lines and restores part of the second lacuna (at least 29 lines), establishing altogether about 45 new lines of the text, some admittedly only to a very fragmentary degree. The whole tablet must be at least 159 lines long. Unfortunately the Me-Turnat tablet is damaged, and is rather poorly written by an apprentice scribe who has made a number of evident mistakes and incorrectly formed signs. Nonetheless the text of the poem is substantially increased by it. For a photograph, see Plate XX. Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1989 Al-Rawi F. N. H. Black J. A. Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 111-122 0021-0889 51<111 1989 51 IRQ https://doi.org/10.2307/4200299 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/4200299 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al-Rawi F. N. H. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Black J. A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 111-122 0021-0889 51<111 1989 51 IRQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge