Tablet from Nippur

Siglum
Tablet from Nippur
Alternative Sigla
Biggs 1965
Transliteration
----{w}k / s¹mś{r}----
---- / qśr----
----ṭk----
----s²----
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

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).

Editio Princeps
Biggs 1965: 37

  • Biggs, R.D. A Chaldean Inscription from Nippur. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179, 1965: 36-38.
  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • [Sass] 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
Old OCIANA ID
#0038291
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