Ebla and the Bible—Observations on the New Epigrapher’s Analysis - The BAS Library

Footnotes

1.

An English translation of this article will also appear in the Biblical Archeologist.

2.

The so-called “Old Calendar” was used by the Eblaite Kings who preceded Ibbi-Sipis. Ibbi-Sipis then introduced the so-called “New Calendar.”

3.

A determinative is a non-phonetic (that is, unpronounced) sign which indicates something about the word in which it appears, in this case that Ya is a deity.

4.

Dingir is an unpronounced determinative indicating that the sign(s) to which it is attached is a deity.

5.

Materiale per Vocabulario Neo-Sumerico, 6, p. 339.

6.

Text from TM.75.G.1321:

Rev. iii 12 1 e-da-um-tug-1 1 aktum-tug 1 ibx3-tug sa6-dar 1 E.-fabric for 1 1 fine and multi-colored dress
13 tu-bi-ab to Tubi-Ab,
14 dumu-nita son
15 zi-ba-da of Z.,
16 ni-de (as) a pouring
17 i-gis of oil
si-in upon
iv 1 sag the head

7.

A logogram is a sign representing primarily whole words.

Endnotes

1.

H. B. Huffman, Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts, Baltimore, 1965, p. 134.

2.

A. F. Rainey, “Rainey on Ebla,” Queries & Comments, BAR 03:01.

3.

Pietro Mander, “Brevi considerazioni sulla lista lessicale SF 23=24 e paralleli da Abu-Salabikh,” Oriens Antiquus 19 (1980), in press.