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From Field Cards to Cuneiform Archives: Two Inscribed Artifacts from Archaic Ur and Their Archaeological Context

  • Giacomo Benati EMAIL logo and Camille Lecompte EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: June 28, 2016
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Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie Volume 106 Issue 1

Abstract:

The two inscribed artifacts discussed in this article were excavated by C. L. Woolley during the seventh field campaign (1928–1929) at Tell al-Muqayyar, ancient Ur, Iraq. The objects were shipped to the British Museum of London in 1930 and 1935 and have never been published in print. These items are presented and analysed here through a review of their textual information, archaeological context, and associated material culture, using unpublished data from the Ur collection kept in the British Museum. This paper is part of a collaborative research project aiming at re-contextualizing the archaic texts from Ur.[1]

G. Benati wrote sections 1–3; C. Lecompte wrote sections 4 and 5; both wrote section 6.

Published Online: 2016-6-28
Published in Print: 2016-6-28

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https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2016-0001

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelseiten
  2. Abhandlungen
  3. From Field Cards to Cuneiform Archives: Two Inscribed Artifacts from Archaic Ur and Their Archaeological Context
  4. New Inscriptions of Gudea from Tell Surghul/Niĝin, Iraq
  5. Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary
  6. UET 6/1, 74, the Hymnic Introduction of a Sumerian Letter-Prayer to Ninšubur
  7. Anti-witchcraft Prescriptions from Ḫattuša and Nippur
  8. Cuneiform Orthography of the Stops in Alalaḫ VII Akkadian
  9. Ein Felsrelief in der Schlucht Darband-i Ramkan nahe Rania und die Geschichte seiner Erforschung
  10. Buchbesprechungen
  11. Manuel Molina, with the collaboration of Maria Elena Milone and Ekaterina Markina: Sargonic Cuneiform Tablets in the Real Academia de la Historia. The Carl Lippmann Collection (Real Academia de la Historia I.1.6.). Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 2014. 670 p. (318+337). 22×31 cm. ISBN 978-84-15069-71-3. Preis: € 75.
  12. Guido Pfeifer: Fortschritt auf Umwegen – Umgehung und Fiktion in Rechtsurkunden des Altertums. (Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 107). München: Beck, 2013. xii, 158 S. 16 × 23,5 cm. ISBN 978-3-406-65195-3. Preis: € 64.
  13. Saqer Salah: Die mittelassyrischen Personen- und Rationenlisten aus Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad/Dūr-Katlimmu. (Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad/Dūr-Katlimmu 18 = Texte 6). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. LXXIV, 460 S. 34,5 × 24,0 cm. ISBN 978-3-447-10243-8. Preis: € 118.
  14. Hayim Tadmor and Shigeo Yamada, with the editorial assistance of Jamie Novotny: The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglathpileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. xxxiii, 211 S. 22 × 28 cm. ISBN 978-1-57506-220-4. Preis: $ 64,50.
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