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The tablets from Abu Salabikh and their provenance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

M. Krebernik  and
J. N. Postgate
M. Krebernik
Affiliation:
Universität Jena, Institut für Kulturen und Sprachen des Vorderen Orients, Kahlaische Str. 1, 07743 Jena, Germanyx8krmn@rz.uni-jena.de
J. N. Postgate
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ, jnp10@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

During the excavations at Abu Salabikh between 1975 and 1989 cuneiform tablets of Early Dynastic date were found in a variety of contexts. Those from 1975–76 were published in Biggs and Postgate 1978, and were added to the sequence of Inscriptions from Abu Salabikh as numbers 516–32. Here all the remaining pieces from later seasons are now published, extending the sequence from IAS 533 to 556. In the first part of the article the distribution of cuneiform tablets across the site as a whole is considered, along with the question of what this may imply for the function of the buildings in which they were found. The second part of the article is an edition of the newly published pieces, and this is followed by an index to the proper nouns and words attested in all the administrative texts from the site.

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IRAQ , Volume 71 , 2009 , pp. 1 - 32
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2009

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