An Appraisal of Ekalte 11 (MBQ-T 65): 34 from Tall Munbāqa (Syria)

The Akkadian text from Tall Munbāqa-Ekalte (Syria): Ek 11 (MBQ-T 65) contains on its line 34 a rather bizarre passage which still remains without a coherent translation since the Ekalte texts were published. Although this document uses a similar legal phraseology generally employed in the Ekalte doc...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Oliva, Juan, Torrecilla, E.
Format: article
Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/667752
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/667752
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Acadio
Ekalte
Historia
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Summary:The Akkadian text from Tall Munbāqa-Ekalte (Syria): Ek 11 (MBQ-T 65) contains on its line 34 a rather bizarre passage which still remains without a coherent translation since the Ekalte texts were published. Although this document uses a similar legal phraseology generally employed in the Ekalte documents, it shows an interesting difference in using the logogram Ì.LÁ.E and the penalty clause. These are expressed through a different clause pattern. The clear economic nature of the context assures in any case that Ì.LÁ.E is not used in this text in its normal position in the apodosis formula, but in the protasis. The aim of the present paper is to investigate this problematic context and to offer some new perspectives on trying to understand this difficult passage in the Akkadian of Ekalte