The Fara lists of proper names
Among the lexical tablets found at Fara, there are two lists of proper names: SF 29 (with the duplicates SF 28 and SF 44) and SF 63. In the latter text the anthroponyms are mingled with common names, an exceptional feature for this kind of texts. On comparing the onomastic material of these lists an...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
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| Summary: | Among the lexical tablets found at Fara, there are two lists of proper names: SF 29 (with the duplicates SF 28 and SF 44) and SF 63. In the latter text the anthroponyms are mingled with common names, an exceptional feature for this kind of texts. On comparing the onomastic material of these lists and that of the economic-administrative texts, more or less contemporary, we may note that the percentage of anthroponyms in common is higher for the Ur ED II texts than for the Fara ED IIIa ones. These data could suggest that the proper names lists discovered in Fara were originally drawn up in Ur or else that their redaction should be attributed to a period earlier than that of the Fara economic-administrative tablets. An analogous comparison with the onomastic material of the economic texts could be made even for the "Names and Professions List" of Abū Ṣalābīkh and Ebla. In this case, the Fara economic documents are far better related to the anthroponyms of the list than to the slightly more recent texts from Abū Ṣalābīkh and from Ebla. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/601662 |