Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh (Oriental Institute by Robert D. Biggs

By Robert D. Biggs

This quantity publishes the entire cuneiform capsules excavated at inform Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 except for a really few fragments thought of illegible. All different pills are represented by way of a replica, by way of a photo, or by way of either. apart from the copies of particularly fragile capsules made within the box, initial copies have been ready from casts and images. therefore they have been checked opposed to the unique pills within the Iraq Museum.

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842). Duplicates are IAS 4, 7, 8, and 9. Some of the signs occur only in this text. SF 65. Probably an exercise tablet. Literary. Proverbs. See SF 26 for a list of duplicates. SF 66. Small fragment. Genre uncertain. SF 67. Word list. Duplicate of SF 58. SF 68. Small fragment, probably a list of wooden objects. SF 69. Word list. Perhaps more than one composition is represented. The first eight lines are reminiscent of the beginning of SF 58, but the rest of the text is not similar. Part of the text has lines repeated several times.

The occurrences are in Nos. 129 and 162. See ZA LXI 195. 22. v. " 23. Note that lulim is written with the lu either separate or in the "head" of the sign; see No. 113 iv 4 and No. 115 iii 14. edu THE COLOPHONS 33 is, several centuries before the date of our tablets. 24 Some of the signs used in this text are otherwise unknown in the Fara period. 25 Among the previously known compositions are copies of another text, Nos. 4, 7-9, known in the Jamdat Nasr period and among the Fara tablets. 2 6 Among the duplicates of Fara texts (all of which are specifically indicated in the descriptive catalogue) is one, No.

117 (A-[zz-zu], [SANGA]), 132 ([A-zu]-zu), 283 A-zu-zu-tur, No. 113 A-x-[pa]-d[ur], 32 No. 25 A-x-gestin-abzu, No. 254 A-x-x, No. 60 A-[x]-x-si, No. 60 Amar-abzu, Nos. 34, 474 BE-is-ga, Nos. 122, 298 BfL-i[l], No. 479 E-uI-nun, No. 43 f-kur-sikil, Nos. 122, 298 E-[x]-i[l], No. 141 30. Deimel, Fara II 3*. A number of different hands can be detected in the AbQ Salabikh tablets, even in what one may consider the normal handwriting, but it appears certain that the tablets on which a certain individual's name is followed by "dub mu-sar" were indeed written by the same person.

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