2023: A Hymn to Gulkišar? (Ni.13090), in J.J. de Ridder / P. Stein (eds.) The Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities – Essays dedicated to Manfred Krebernik during the Colloquium Held on March 17–18, 2022 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, TMH 14. By Elyze Zomer

https://www.academia.edu/111351843/2023_A_Hymn_to_Gulki%C5%A1ar_Ni_13090_in_J_J_de_Ridder_P_Stein_eds_The_Hilprecht_Collection_of_Babylonian_Antiquities_Essays_dedicated_to_Manfred_Krebernik_during_the_Colloquium_Held_on_March_17_18_2022_at_the_Friedrich_Schiller_University_Jena_TMH_14?rhid=40606461050&swp=rr-rw-wc-3286158&nav_from=a43c0f40-c5ff-4b77-9ff5-a990d7517200 On 24th November 1949, F. R. Kraus identified the name Gulkisar on a tiny Akkadian literary fragment with a Middle Babylonian ductus in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, i.e., Ni.13090. This text remained in obscurity until Marten Stol found a handwritten edition of it among F. R. Kraus' personal notes in Leiden and communicated the information in August 2014 to Michael Streck and Nathan Wasserman as a contribution to the ongoing SEAL-project (Leipzig/ Jerusalem). Subsequently, the note (Fig. 1) was passed on to the present author, who was preparing an edition of the Epic of Gulkisar which appeared in Zomer, 2019: 28-37 (= TMH 12, no. I). The Istanbul-fragment (Ni.13090) was quickly recognized to belong to a text different from the Epic of Gulkisar, which consists in tum of one main fragment in the Hilprecht Collection in Jena (HS 1885 2) and two smaller fragments in the University Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (N 4026 and N 1338). The transliteration off. R. Kraus' note was provided by Zomer, 2019: 24f. n. 182. In Autumn 2022, the author was able to collate Ni. I 3090, which finally warrants the present publication providing hand-drawn copies (Figs. 2-4) and a philological edition of the tablet. Although Ni.13090 is only a small fragment (50 x 29 x 27), in spirit of the jubilee, it is hoped that it enables future joins with other fragments from Istanbul, Philadelphia and Jena. Until recently, Gulkisar, the sixth king of the First Sealand Dynasty was relatively obscure, attested only in the king lists (Synchronistic Kinglist'; Babylonian Kinglist A 4 and 8 5), in a Distanzangabe in a kudurru (BE I, 83) stating the time elapsed between his reign and Enlilnadin-apli (11 th century BCE) 6 and in a forged colophon of a glass-making treatise. 7 With the publication of an archive of the First Sealand Dynasty by Dalley (2009), we have gained insights in the palatial administration of the kings Pesgaldarames and Ayadaragalama, direct Eberhard Karls University of TUbingen. 2 Note that HS 1885 was previously joined by Joachim Oelsner with HS 2819 in ea. 1975. This fragment is now permanently fixed to the main fragment HS 1885. ...