RES 3936

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TRANSLATION RES: 'Kirs¹i, the blacksmith'. DISCUSSION Gadd & Legrain 1928: 58, no. 192. Burrow 1927: 801-802 following by Albright 1952: 40-41: text in Akkadian language,
Commentary: Fragment of a bowl rim, dimensions not reported, with an inscription, probably incised (Sass 1991: 39). Sass mixed up RES 3030 with RES 3036.

Provenance: Found by Woolley's expedition on the surface near Ur, field no. U.6900 (Sass 1991: 39).
Original Reading Credit: Burrows 1927: 801-802
Original Translation Credit: Burrows 1927: 801-802

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Albright, W.F. The Chaldaean Inscriptions in Proto-Arabic Script . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 128, 1952: 39-45.
Burrows, E. A New Kind of Old Arabic Writing from Ur. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1927: 795-806.
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