Relecture des lettres de Kiš conservées au Louvre

Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale. 2023. Vol. 117. No. 1. P. 69–84.

Arkhipov I.

The Louvre houses thirty-two Old Babylonian letters discovered in Kiš during the excavations led by Henri de Genouillac in 1912. He published the letters, copied in cuneiform, in 1925. Twenty-two of these letters were then published by Jean-Robert Kupper in 1959. In 2019, the letters were collated in the Louvre, and the results of this work are presented here. In this article, nine of the letters are published for the first time in transliteration and, when possible, translation, five of the letters previously published by Kupper are re-edited, and there are occasional remarks on the other letters. The commentaries concern prosopography, archival reconstruction, and some aspects of Old Babylonian vocabulary and grammar.

Keywords: Ancient Mesopotamia, Древняя Месопотамия, аккадский язык, Babylonia, Вавилония, Old Babylonian