Miscellaneous Clay Objects

Less than a handful of inscriptions are written on other types of clay objects. These are: (1) a bulla with a clay sealing discovered in the Review Palace at Kalḫu bearing a two-word proprietary label of Sîn-šarra-iškun; (2) eight clay disks from Ur inscribed with a sixteen-line Akkadian inscription of Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, the governor of Ur, recording that that official rebuilt a well named Puḫilituma ("Well That Brings Luxuriance") in the Sîn temple at Ur "in order to ensure the good health of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria"; and (3) a clay drum-shaped object with a copy of a Sumerian inscription of the Ur III king Amar-Suena (2046–2038) and a colophon of Sîn-balāssu-iqbi stating that he had found an inscribed brick of that king while looking for the ground plan of Ekišnugal.^[55] The texts on the drum-shaped object, which might have been a model for an altar or dais, were prepared on behalf of Sîn-balāssu-iqbi by Nabû-šuma-iddin, a lamentation-priest of the god Sîn.^[56]

Notes

[55] Respectively, Ssi 20, Asb. 2006, and Asb. 2007. For an edition of the Amar-Suena inscription, see Frayne, RIME 3/2 pp. 256–257 E3/2.1.3.11.

[56] On the poor quality of the copy of the Sumerian text, see the commentary of Asb. 2007.

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Miscellaneous Clay Objects', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap53introduction/surveyofinscribedobjects/miscellaneousclayobjects/]

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