DT 240

Reference

  • DT 240
  • British Museum Collection Online W_DT-240
  • CDLI P382594
  • Acquisition: Excavated by G Smith
  • Provenance: Nineveh > Kuyunjik > >

Object

  • tablet
  • 5.4 x 5.1cm

Inscription

  • Scholarly - lexical
  • Neo-Assyrian script
    • Colophon: not preserved
  • Neo-Assyrian

CT 11, pl. 37, DT 240 (CT 11, pl. 37) [Aa] [via DCCLT/NINEVEH]

Obverse
Column i
o io i  (beginning line missing)
(traces of 8-9 line)
Column ii
o iio ii  (beginning line missing)
(1 line blank)
o ii 1'1'

[[a-a > ]] *(diš)

a-a

A

a-a-u₂

[...]

(12-13 line blank)
o ii 2'2'

*(diš)

a-e

A

a-a-u₂

[...]1

Reverse
Column i
r i 1r i 1

[[me-e > ]] *(diš)

me-e

A

a-[a-u₂]

[...]

water

about 11-12 lines blank, Akk. col. broken
single ruling
r i 1'1'

[[a-a-a-a > ]] *(diš)

a-a-a-a

A×A

A

⸢ša₂?⸣ [...]

[...]

grandfather

r i 2'2'

[[eduru > ]] [*(diš)]

⸢e⸣-du-ru

A×A

A

[...]

[...]

heir

r i 3'3'

[[esaŋ > ]] [*(diš)]

[e]-⸢saŋ⸣

A.SAG

[...]

[...]

heir

rest broken
(1 column missing)

1MSL 14 editor considers entry to be a scribal error note: in gloss col. perhaps read: A-e for mê

Edition by Jeremie Peterson and John Carnahan.