Tablet
Classification/Broad: Writing
Classification/Specific: Tablet
Material/Broad: Clay
Material/Specific: Clay, Baked
Measurements: H. 6.0, W. 4.4, Th. 2.1 cm.
Description: Poorly preserved tablet inscribed with a record of barley flour expended for unknown purposes. Contra Yang, the script looks certainly Ur III rather than OB. The obverse is damaged and the reverse is almost completely destroyed. No personal names can be readily identified. Part of a month name is preserved on the last line of the reverse: iti še-K[IN?-ku5), a month compatible with an Adab provenience, but which was also used elsewhere. Excavated at Adab by Banks according to Oriental Institute records, but there are no internal criteria by which this provenience can be confirmed. Because other tablets alleged to be from Adab can be determined to have come from other sites, it is impossible to be certain if this tablet really comes from that place.
Region: Wasit governorate
Country: Iraq
Place/site: Bismaya
Place/other: --
Locus: --
Period: Ur III
Date: --
Culture: --
Dynasty: --
King/Ruler: --
Inscribed: Yes
Inscription Sequence Number: 1
Inscription Language: --
Script: --
Dialect: --
Inscription Description: YES
Inscription Subject: --
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Inscription Location: --
Translation:
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Transliteration One:
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Transliteration Two:
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Transliteration Three:
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Registration Number: A710
Accession Number: 83
Field Number: H 252
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