Tablet from Uruk

Siglum: Tablet from Uruk
Alternative Sigla: Kienast 1958: 43-44
Transliteration: A: [----] ---- {g}{w}lṯ ----bblrqbṯ ----nbyṯ ----yṯṯ{h}---- B: ----ṯnbkʾt ----ṣrṯ [----]r

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Side A. Line 2. Kienast: ----{m}{w}lṯ for ---- {g}{w}lṯ. Line 4: Kienast: ----ġnbyṯ for ----nbyṯ. Line 5: Kienast: ----ġyṯ{ṯ}h---- rather than ----yṯṯ{h}----. Side B. Line 1. Kienast: ----{h}ṯnbks¹t for ----ṯnbkʾt. Line 2: Kienast: ----[l]ṣrṯ rather than ----ṣrṯ. Line 3. Kienast: ----(Rasur?)(ṯ}. Line 4. Kienast: ----sġ?. DISCUSSION Roux 1960: 28, note 45. Biggs 1965: 38, note 2. Albright, in Garbini 1976: 173.
Commentary: Fragment of a clay tablet, 5.5 x 5 ? cm, with an incised inscription (Sass 1991: 41).

Provenance: Found in the excavations of the German Expedition, 1955–1956 season, in a Parthian dump in the north–west of the E–Anna courtyard in Square Od XIV 4 (Sass 1991: 41)
Original Reading Credit: Sass 1991: 41

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