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An Aramaic Ostracon from Nimrud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

J. B. Segal
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The ostracon ND.6231 described in this article was found at Nimrud (Kalḫu), in April 1957, during the excavation of the building known as Fort Shalmaneser which was a royal depot situated in the S.E. corner of the outer town. This sherd came from room F.S., S.W.1, and lay in rubbish mixed with ash, 20 cm. above a trodden level that represents the latest occupation of the Assyrian building which was destroyed in 612 B.C. It is hoped to publish the plan of this depot, in which many wine jars, metal objects and ivories were found, in a subsequent number of Iraq.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1957 , pp. 139 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1957

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page 139 note 1 I have discussed my reading of these texts with Dr. S. A. Birnbaum, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, who gave generously of his time and his great experience in palaeographic studies. Responsibility for the views expressed here is, however, wholly my own.

page 144 note 1 See Wiseman, D. J., Iraq, XIV, Pt. 1, pp. 25 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 144 note 2 C.I.S. II, No. 1 ff.

page 144 note 3 Some of these dockets have been assembled in C.I.S. II. They are edited more fully in J. Stevenson, Assyrian and Babylonian Contracts.—See also Delaporte.

page 144 note 4 Ginsberg, H. L., “Aramaic Dialect Problems,” A.J.S.L., L. 4Google Scholar.

page 144 note 5 See in particular the Zencirli inscriptions.

The following are abbreviations used here in addition to those normally current in this Journal. Page references are given unless otherwise stated:—

Caquot = A. Caquot, in H. Ingholt, etc., Recueil des Tessires de Palmyre. CIS. = Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum (number unless the page reference is given). Delaporte = L. Delaporte, Épigrapbes araméens; Epb. = M. Lidzbarski, Ephemeris für semitiscbe Epigrapbik, Friedrich = J. Friedrich, Phönizisch-Punische Grammatik; NBN = K. Tallqvist, Neubabylonisches Namenbuch; Noth: = M. Noth, Israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung; N.S.I. = G. A. Cooke, North-Semitic Inscriptions; Reisner = G. A Reisner, Harvard Excavations at Samaria, I.; R..E.S. = Répertoire d'épigrapbie sémitiaue, No.; Wuthnow = H. Wuthnow, Semitischen Menscbennamen in griechiscben Inscbriften und Papyri des vorderen Orients.