RT Article
T1 Requests for Food-provisions in RS 94.2523 and RS 94.2530
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 46
IS 1
SP 15
OP 21
A1 Lyons, Michael C.
LA German
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801475741
AB Scholars have debated the meaning of both RS 94.2523 and 94.2530, two letters from Hatti to Ugarit at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Settling the meaning of the Sumerogram pad (Akkadian, kurummatu ) as either a reference to metal ingots or a type of food-provision has persistently caused interpretative trouble. The present article reassesses Singer’s arguments for reading pad as metal ingots, and it finds his arguments unsupported by the philological evidence. In addition, this article offers a new observation about famine language in RS 94.2530 that suggests pad does indeed refer to food-provisions in both letters as originally proposed by Lackenbacher/Malbran-Labat.
K1 food-provisions
K1 Famine
K1 RS 94.2530
K1 RS 94.2523
K1 Hatti
DO 10.1515/aofo-2019-0002