Inscriptions on Lapis Lazuli Tablets (text no. 62)

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A small, badly damaged lapis-lazuli tablet that may have served as an amulet is inscribed with a short dedication to a deity, most likely Marduk (based on the preserved epithets).

Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003761/] of Ashurbanipal 62.

Source: BM 098865 (Th 1905-04-09, 0371

Commentary

The tablet, of which only the left portion remains, was discovered at Nineveh by R. Campbell Thompson (find spot not recorded). Each line of text is separated by a horizontal ruling. The script is a mixture of Assyrian and contemporary Babylonian sign forms, with Assyrian forms predominating; this is typical for Assyrian inscriptions written on stone.

Bibliography

1914 King, Cat. p. 75 no. 763 (study)

1996 Borger, BIWA p. 353; and LoBl pp. 120–121 (transliteration, study)

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'Inscriptions on Lapis Lazuli Tablets (text no. 62)', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap51textintroductions/lapislazulitabletstext62/]

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