Sigla: RES 3934; Burrows 1927: 795-799; Albright 1952: 39-41; Garbini 1976: 172-174; Sass 1991: 40, fig. 12–13  Script: Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

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Transliteration
dnlyzb{g}k drlśn

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Burrows: dngyzblk for dnlyzb{g}k; RES: dngʾzblk for dnlyzb{g}k; Albright: dnl yzbl k for dnlyzb{g}k; Garbini: dnlyzbḥk rather than dnlyzb{g}k.
Line 2. Burrows: drgsn for drlśn; Albright: dr ls²n rather than drlśn.

DISCUSSION
Roux 1960: 28 and note 45.
Woolley 1962: 31, 114, 133.
Biggs 1965: 36-37, note 2.

Commentary
Brick fragment, 9 x 8 x ? cm, with incised inscriptions (Sass 1991: 40).

Present Location: Unknown (Iraq Museum?)
Notes: Found in Woolleys's excavations in the 1920s in Room 7 of the E-nun-makh temple below a floor dating from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, field no. U.7815 (Sass 1991: 40).

References:
Albright, W.F. The Chaldaean Inscriptions in Proto-Arabic Script . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 128, 1952: 39-45. Pages: 39-41

Biggs, R.D. A Chaldean Inscription from Nippur. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179, 1965: 36-38. Pages: 36-37, note 2

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. Pages: 795-799

Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174. Pages: 172-174

[RES] Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique in G. Ryckmans (ed.), Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique. Publié par la Commission du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1900–1968. Pages: 390

Roux, G. Recently discovered ancient sites in the Hammar Lake District (southern Iraq). Sumer 16, 1960: 20-31. Pages: 28

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. Pages: 40, fig. 12-13

Woolley, L. Ur Excavations IX: the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods. Publications of the joint expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philaldelphia, to Mesopotamia. British Museum Publications, 1962. Pages: 31, 114, 133

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