Sigla: Tablet from Uruk; Kienast 1958: 43-44  Script: Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

A:
[----]
---- {}{}
----
----
----{}----

B:
----
----
[----]

Transliteration
A: [----] ---- {g}{w}lṯ ----bblrqbṯ ----nbyṯ ----yṯṯ{h}---- B: ----ṯnbkʾt ----ṣrṯ [----]r

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).

Present Location: Iraq Museum 59821
Notes: 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)

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

Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174. Pages: 173

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. Pages: 43-44 Plates: 46:A,B

Roux, G. Recently discovered ancient sites in the Hammar Lake District (southern Iraq). Sumer 16, 1960: 20-31. Pages: 28, note 45

[Sass] 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: 41-42, fig. 14 Plates: 14

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