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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