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II. Threshing Implements in Ancient Mesopotamia: Cuneiform sources*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

P. Steinkeller
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This note examines the textual evidence bearing on Mesopotamian threshing implements, in the hope of throwing some light on the Uruk representations of sledges discussed in the first part of this article. The relevant terminology is limited to four words: giš-bad(-rá), kissappu, and dajaštu, and ḪAR-ḫa-da. “Of these, giš-bad(-rá), kissappu, and dajaštu have previously been recognized as denoting threshing implements; the suggestion that another such term is ḪAR-ḫa-da is new.

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IRAQ , Volume 52 , 1990, pp. 19 - 23
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1990

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Footnotes

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I wish to thank Mrs. M. A. Littauer for her kind invitation to become part of this fascinating investigation, and Professor Edith Porad a for having made this collaboration possible. I am also grateful to M. Civil for commenting on the first draft of this note. It goes without saying that responsibility for the views here expressed rests with me alone.

Abbreviations used are those of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary with the following additions:

TSA H. de Genouillac, Tablettes sumériennes archaïques (Paris, 1909)

ZAT M. W. Green, The Sign List, in M. W. Green, H. Nissen et al.Zeichenliste der archaischen Texte aus Uruk (Berlin, 1987), pp. 167–345.