A2 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



(23)^'"Ri-mu-su, i. e., "the overseers of the vineyards Daian-Adad 

 of Isana, in the country of Pialziadbar, of Birtum, of Arzuhina^ 

 of Arba'ilu, of Guzana, of Sharish, of Tamnuna, of Rimusu". 

 The city Isan, mentioned first, is Tell Isan, Isan Koi, be- 

 tween Aleppo and Biregik, in the plain between Sadjur and 

 Kerzun, 45' north of Zembur^. The city is here stated to be 

 situated in the country (or district) of H^^^iadbar. Birtu was 

 situated west of the Euphrates, and was a Hittite city"-. Since 

 the name Birtu occurs frequently, it remains doubtful, however, 

 whether this city is meant^. The texts mention the following 

 names of cities compounded with Birtu: Birtu-sa-Kar-ilu-bel- 

 matati, Birtu-sa-Labbanat^ Birtu-sa-Kinia ^ and Birtu-sa-Sarra- 

 giti. It is more likely that one of the two latter cities is in- 

 tended here, both of which seem to have been situated in the 

 district of the Gurumu on the lower Zab ''. Arzuhina (written 

 also Ur-zu-hi-na in Harper, Assyr. and Baby I. Letters, V^) and 

 Arba'ilu are well known cities. The former, according to II R 65, 

 15. 16 b' was situated on the lower Zab river and opposite the 

 city of Zaban. Arba'ilu (Apf3r]>.a, modern Erbil) la}- between the 

 upper and the lower Zab. Guzana is a cit}- -which is mentioned 

 in the Old Testament (ijiJ, II. Kings 17, 6; 18, 11; 19, 12; Is. 

 yj , 12; I. Chr. 5, 26) ^ It was situated on the river Habur. The 

 last city mentioned in the Harper text, Rimusu lay on a canal 

 of the river Husur^. All of these cities had vineyards over 

 which a rab-kartnani, "an overseer of the vineyards" was 

 placed. Tablet K. 346 '^ mentions an overseer of the vineyards 



i) See PSBA, June 1882, p, 117 and BA II, p. 49, 



2) Thus according to Salm. Obel., 33 35. 



3) This doubt is raised in BA IV, p. 513. 



4) Tigl. Pil., Claytablet inscr. 8. 5) Ibid. 



6) See Schiffer, Die Aramder, p. 123. 



7) Ina eli aluZa-ban Su-ba-li-e ina tar-si alu Ar-zu-hi-na. 



8) FauZiaviTK; in Ptol. V, 18, 3. 4. (Cf. Delitzsch, Parad. 184 and Winckler, 

 KAT, 269). 



9) BA IV, p. 516 cites San. Bav., 8 11 "ultu libbi aluRi-mu-sa 



18 narate usahra ana libbinaru Husur uSesir". It is the sixth 



of 18 villages which were connected by a canal with the river Choser, which 

 sheds its waters into the Tigris south of Kuyungik. See also, Delitzsch, Pa- 

 rad. 187 ff. 



10) III R 48, No. 4 (= KB IV, p. 114, No. 2 . 



