An Unpublished Text from the Iraqi Museum

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
269-276

Abstract

This text was engraved on a cylindrical stone made of white lime with length 10. 2 c. m. and 5. 2 c. m. of thickness. On the surface of this stone 17 lines were inscribted in the shape of framed circle. This text belongs to E. NINNU temple. What is sight catching in this is that the writer distributed the syllables of a single word in more than one line, i. e. some syllables in the above line and its completion in the line below, although there are some similar texts to this type of text that are inscribted on door sockets, baked cones and bricks. This way of inscription is very unique, rare, and unprecedented in cuneiform texts during the historical periods as far as the researcher

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M. Sulaiman, M., & مؤید. (2025). An Unpublished Text from the Iraqi Museum. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 42(62), 269–276. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2012.71144