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Label from Ur

Text Information

Siglum
Label from Ur
Alternative Sigla
Gadd and Legrain 1928: 58, no. 193; Kienast 1958: 44
Transliteration
dbdʾ
Translation
Dbdʾ

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Gadd & Legrain 1928: 58: Apparently Aramaic. Kienast 1958.
Commentary
Clay label, 4 x 2 cm. with incised letters (Sass 1991: 38).

Provenance
Found in Woolley's excavations at Ur in E-gig-par, field no. U.2919 (Sass 1991: 38)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • Kienast, B. Mitteilung von einer Tontafel mit altsüdarabischer Beschriftung. Pages 43-44, pl. 46 in H. Lenzen (ed.), XIV. Vorläufiger Bericht über die von dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut und der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft aus Mitteln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft unternommenen Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka, Winter 1955/56. (Abhandlungen der deutschen Orientgesellschaft, 3). Berlin: Mann, 1958.
  • 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.
  • Gadd, C.J. & Legrain, L. Ur Excavations Texts. I. Royal Inscriptions. London: British Museum & Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1928.
Site
Iraq
Current Location
Iraq Museum 978
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian
Old OCIANA ID
#0038287
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