Tablet from Nippur
Text Information
- Siglum
- Tablet from Nippur
- Alternative Sigla
- Biggs 1965
- Transliteration
- ----{w}k/s¹mś{r}---- ----/qśr---- ----ṭk---- ----s²----
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- DISCUSSION Garbini 1976: 170-171.
- Commentary
- Fragment, 3 x 4x 0.5 cm, of a baked clay tablet with an incised inscription (Sass 1991: 42).
- Provenance
- Found in the excavations of the Chicago expedition, 1964-1965 season, in the dumps of earlier excavations; field no. 9N T-12 (Sass 1991: 42)
- Original Reading Credit
- Biggs 1965: 37
- Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
- Biggs, R.D. A Chaldean Inscription from Nippur. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179, 1965: 36-38.
- Sass, B. Studia Alphabetica. On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 102). Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag / Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1991.
- Site
- Nippur, Iraq
- Date Found
- 1964–1965
- Current Location
- Iraq Museum, number not reported
- Script
- Dispersed Oasis North Arabian
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038291
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