Two Exilarchs on one Page

The other day, I noticed that there was reference to two different people who were Reish Geluta on a single daf, Bava Batra 55.

First, there was Ukvan bar Nechemiah, the same as Natan Detzutzita, who quotes Shmuel.

אָמַר רַבָּה: הָנֵי תְּלָת מִילֵּי, אִישְׁתַּעִי לִי עוּקְבָן בַּר נְחֶמְיָה רֵישׁ גָּלוּתָא, מִשְּׁמֵיהּ דִּשְׁמוּאֵל: דִּינָא דְמַלְכוּתָא דִּינָא, וַאֲרִיסוּתָא דְפָרְסָאֵי – עַד אַרְבְּעִין שְׁנִין, וְהָנֵי זַהֲרוּרֵי דְּזָבֵין אַרְעָא לְטַסְקָא – זְבִינַיְהוּ זְבִינֵי.

§ Rabba said: These three statements were told to me by Ukvan bar Neḥemya the Exilarch in the name of Shmuel: The law of the kingdom is the law; and the term of Persian sharecropping [arisuta] is for up to forty years, since according to Persian laws the presumption of ownership is established after forty years of use; and in the case of these tax officials [zaharurei] who sold land in order to pay the land tax, the sale is valid, as the tax officials were justified in seizing it, and one may purchase the land from them.

I just wrote a whole article about this person, and placing him in a scholastic generation. While there was definite name reuse as they name after ancestors, and I suggest that there is also a regnal name, so there was also an earlier similarly named exilarch, I believe that this figure is approximately contemporary with Rabba and Rav Yosef, thus making him second or third generation. Here is the preview, with the summary and full open Jewish Link article coming soon.

The other exilarch, on the same amud, is Huna bar Natan.

אָמַר רַב אָשֵׁי, אָמַר לִי הוּנָא בַּר נָתָן: שְׁאֵילְתִּינְהוּ לְסָפְרֵי דְרָבָא, וַאֲמַרוּ לִי: הִלְכְתָא כְּרַב הוּנָא בְּרֵיהּ דְּרַב יְהוֹשֻׁעַ. וְלָא הִיא, הָתָם – לְאוֹקוֹמֵי מִילְּתֵיהּ הוּא דְּאָמַר.

Rav Ashi said: Huna bar Natan said to me: I asked the scribes who wrote documents and recorded halakhic rulings in the court of Rava, and they said to me that the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua, who states that one’s possessions are all mortgaged for the payment of the head tax. The Gemara notes: But that is not so, as there, Huna bar Natan said that in order to buttress his previous statement.

Huna bar Natan speaks to Rav Ashi, sixth generation. And Rava is a fourth-generation Amora. The scribes either describe a practice in general, that happens to accord with the practice of one of Rava’s famous fifth-generation students, Rav Huna b. Rav Yehoshua, or they tag Rav Huna b. Rav Yehoshua by name. Thus, he is fifth and sixth generation.

Here is the Hebrew Wikipedia article about him. That includes a stamp / signet:

where the orangish red is the stamp and the back is the impression it makes, which we can read. If you read the Seder Olam Zuta quote in my linked article (though that is currently behind a paywall), you’ll see an earlier Huna bar Natan as Exilarch. So, this is another example of name reuse. In terms of the stamp, are we sure which one it belonged to?