tablet
- Museum number
- SM.15
- Title
- Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
- Description
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Fragment of a clay tablet, the so-called Assyrian "Syllabary S{a}", arranged according to a special order of cuneiform signs, 28 lines of inscription, bilingual, Neo-Assyrian.
- Dimensions
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Length: 5.08 centimetres
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Width: 6.35 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Attached to K.62 and K.2865. For Assyrian "Syllabary S{a}", see Peiser, 1886. 'Zeitschrift für Assyriologie', p.95 ff.; 1887, p.316 ff.). On a duplicate to part of Columns IV and V, see K.4118. Cf. also Hincks, E., 1852. 'On the Assyro-Babylonian phonetic characters', Dublin, pp. 335, note; 342, note; and Oppert, J., 1859. ‘Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert’ vol. II. Paris : Imprimerie impériale, pp. 53, 145, 232, 316.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- SM.15
- Joined objects
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Joined Tablet Group: G10938 (4 objects)