%0 Journal Article
%T A Note on a New Eponym Name and its Date from Neo-Assyrian Period
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%D 2019
%X There are some 50 Neo-Assyrian tablets and fragments derived from illicit excavations in Kahramanmara£¿ and most of whichare being preserved in Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum andKahramanmara£¿ Archeology Museum. The tablets and fragments wereunder the name of ¡°Kahramanmara£¿¡¯ta Bulunmu£¿ Yeni AsurcaTabletler¡± (Neo-Assyrian Tablets Found in Kahramanmara£¿) with anintroduction in English and submitted to Turkish Historical Society forpublication. Covering a time span of 90 years (703-613 BC), thesetablets are the most comprehensive legal documents found in Anatoliabelonging to the Neo-Assyrian period. Among these tablets written inNeo-Assyrian language and script, there is also one Aramaic docket. Interms of their content Mara£¿ tablets provide significant and interestinginformation foremost among which is the differences in dating. Thispaper focuses on eponym year of £¿ama£¿-iqbi (624/623 BC) attested aslimmu in the document bearing the inventory number 36.14.07 but notincluded in the Eponym List. Although many governors of the provinceof Zam¨¡nu are known from the documents belonging to differentAssyrian kings, £¿ama£¿-iqbi is not attested before and he must be one ofthe last governors of the province of Zam¨¡nu. Additionally, in this studyby the help of prosopography the document (Marqasi 1) dated to theeponym Kan¨±n¨¡ya has been re-dated. The current data indicates thatboth eponyms attested for the post-canonical period
%K Kanonik d£¿£¿£¿
%K limmu
%K Yeni Asur
%K £¿iviyaz£¿s£¿
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/aran/issue/47533/545522