Sherd from Tell Abu Salabiḥ

Siglum
Sherd from Tell Abu Salabiḥ
Alternative Sigla
Roux 1960
Transliteration
brkl
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Translation
Brkl
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Roux prefers to interpret LKRB rather than brkl. DISCUSSION Biggs 1965: 36-37, note 2.
Commentary
Posherd (of a storage jar?), dimensions not reported, with an inscription incised after firing (Sass 1991: 38).

Editio Princeps
Sass 1991: 38

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Biggs, R.D. A Chaldean Inscription from Nippur. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179, 1965: 36-38.
  • Roux, G. Recently discovered ancient sites in the Hammar Lake District (southern Iraq). Sumer 16, 1960: 20-31.
  • [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
Iraq
Current Location
Iraq Museum 62778 (Sass 1991: 38)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038286
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