Shepherds of the black-headed people - New York Art Resources ...

UE III: 105(ms)UE III: 134UE III: 155"lock" onplaited-workwallcontainer(vessel)container (baleof plaitedwork?)KA0 UB0 PAP manuallywritten 600 GAN 2 KI ligature,disposedcrosswise intofour directionsUE III: 172 ?? 61 0 AB?UE III: 227 ?? 0 UBUE III: 234 ?? 0 UBUE III: 254 "lock" countermarkedwithAN (?)rosette 62UE III: 281 "lock" repeatedly (5x)countermarkedwith rosetteAN AN UB X XUE III: 325 ?? 0 BAD? 6360 PA 4 = PAP = ZATU No. 427 p. 263, MSVO 1 pp. 133-134. A title PAP.ENdoes exist. Another possibility is that mentioned by Selz 1995, 272:Maurice Lambert says that the Fara texts have a simple PAP = munusinstead of PAP.PAP, translating the term as "La Fertilisatrice"; Selzproposes here "die wachsen lässt, grosszieht", a form possibly identicalwith the nominal form bulug 3 = PAP.PAP = rubbû(m), read currently mostoften as munu 4 . "She who fosters growth?" But this sign may also refer toan "unfinished, open transaction"(Selz 1993, 186, "Archivvermerk".).Seealso Krebernik 2004 (ED: "Personennamen…lassen sich hinsichtlich ihrerAussagen gut auf die Königin [von Lagaš, pch] beziehen"; in later lexicaltradition "eine weibliche, der Muttergöttin oder Ištar nahestehenderGestalt").61 The double question mark means the the state of preservation of thesealing reverse does not allow safe conclusions.62 On the rosette see most recently Selz 2004, 201 (= Sumerian ul, "verypowerful symbol of life").63 See http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html s. v. bad = beopen, thresh grain. Here the third-millennium sources, in which BAD =44