The ''Urra=hubullu'' ( ) is a major Babylonian glossary or " encyclopedia". It consists of Sumerian and

Akkadian Akkadian or Accadian may refer to: * Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire * Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language * Akkadian literature, literature in this language * Akkadian cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabi ...

lexical lists The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their Akkadian or other language equivalents. They are the oldest literary texts from Mesopotamia ...

ordered by topic. The canonical version extends to 24 tablets. The conventional title is the first gloss, ''ur₅-ra'' and ''ḫubullu'' meaning "interest-bearing debt" in Sumerian and Akkadian, respectively. One bilingual version from

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S2.(23)+is Sumerian/

Hurrian The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; transliteration: ''Ḫu-ur-ri''; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurrian language and lived in Anatolia, Syria and Northern ...

rather than Sumerian/Akkadian. A partial table of contents: * Tablet 4: naval vehicles * Tablet 5: terrestrial vehicles * Tablets 13 to 15: systematic enumeration of the names of domestic animals, terrestrial animals, and birds (including bats) * Tablet 16: stones * Tablet 17: plants. * Tablet 22: star names The bulk of the collection was compiled in the Old Babylonian period (early 2nd millennium BC), with pre-canonical forerunner documents extending into the later 3rd millennium. Like other canonical glossaries, the Urra=hubullu was often used for scribal practice. Other Babylonian glossaries include: * Ea: a family of lists that give the simple signs of the cuneiform writing system with their pronunciation and Akkadian meanings. (MSL volume 14) * "Table of

Measures Measure may refer to: * Measurement, the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event Law * Ballot measure, proposed legislation in the United States * Church of England Measure, legislation of the Church of England * Measu ...

": conversion tables for grain, weights and surface measurements. Again, it is not clear how these tablets were used. *

Lú Lugh or Lug (; ga, label=Irish language, Modern Irish, Lú ) is a figure in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a group of supernatural beings, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a savior.Olmsted, Ga ...

and Lú=ša, a list of professions (MSL volume 12) * Izi, a list of compound words ordered by increasing complexity * Diri "limited to compound logograms whose reading cannot be inferred from their individual components; it also includes marginal cases such as reduplications, presence or absence of determinatives, and the like." (MSL volume 14) * Nigga, Erimhuš and other school texts

References

Benno Landsberger Benno Landsberger (21 April 1890 – 26 April 1968) was a German Assyriologist. Early life and education He was born on 21 April 1890 in Friedek, then part of Austrian Silesia, and from 1908 studied Oriental Studies at Leipzig. Amongst his te ...

''The Series HAR-ra="hubullu"'', Materials for the Sumerian lexicon (MSL), 5. 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11'', Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1957- *A. Poebel, ''The Beginning of the Fourteenth Tablet of Harra Hubullu'', The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jan., 1936), pp. 111-114 *Soldt, W. H. van, "Babylonian Lexical, Religious and Literary Texts, and Scribal Education at Ugarit and its Implications for the Alphabetic Literary Texts," in: ''Ugarit: ein ostmediterranes Kulturzentrum in Alten Orient: Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der Forschung'', Dietrich and Loretz eds., Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas, vol 7, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995, 171-212

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