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Some Aramaic Epigraphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

A. R. Millard
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From the earliest days of Assyriology, the neo-Assyrian deeds bearing Aramaic annotations have attracted interest for the light they throw on both of the languages involved. Since L. Delaporte compiled his Epigraphes araméens in 1912, containing thirty such texts, no more have been published. The same collection contains four pieces wholly in Aramaic and to these can be added the six from Assur published by M. Lidzbarski, Altaramäische Urkunden aus Assur (WVDOG 38), 1921, and five from Tell Halaf, published by J. Friedrich in Die Inschriften von Tell Halaf (AfO Beiheft 6 (1940)). An examination of the script of these epigraphs has been made by S. J. Liebermann, BASOR 192 (1968), 25–31. All of these texts, together with the dockets of the neo-Babylonian and Persian periods, have been collected in catalogue form recently by F. Vattioni, Augustinianum 10 (1970), 493–532. The purpose of the present paper is to make some more of these texts available.

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IRAQ , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1972 , pp. 131 - 137
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1972

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1 Sir Henry Rawlinson used them as a proof of the accurate decipherment of cuneiform in JRAS NS 1 (1865), 187–246Google Scholar.

2 See Iraq 27 (1965), 12–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See Parker, B. H., Iraq 16 (1954), 29–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Cf. Layard, A. H., A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853), pl. 69, no. 20Google Scholar; Porada, E., CANES I, no. 793Google Scholar; ND 3307, Parker, B. H., Iraq 17 (1955), 125, fig. 33CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 I am indebted to Dr. Edith Porada for this identification, and for discussing these impressions with me.

6 On the use of l denoting recipients in earlier administrative texts, see Rainey, A. F., “Some Prepositional Nuances in Ugaritic Administrative Texts”, Proceedings of the International Conference of Semitic Studies, Jerusalem (1963), 206–207Google Scholar.

7 See Kutscher, E. Y., JAOS 74 (1954), 241–242Google Scholar.

8 As Ylvisaker, S. C. hinted long ago, Zur babylonischen und assyrischen Grammatik (1912), 55Google Scholar.

9 See Finkelstein, J. J., AnSt 7 (1957), 142Google Scholar; von Soden, W., Or NS 35 (1966), 8Google Scholar.

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