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Some Mesopotamian Inscribed Vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

C. B. F. Walker
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The Neo-Assyrian stone vase BM 93088 (82–5–22, 300a) was briefly described in E. A. W. Budge's Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities (3rd ed., 1922), p. 196 no. 220. That description misleadingly suggests that the vessel is made of na4na-aḫ-bu-[x]; in fact the term referred to the vase itself as the full text of the inscription (Fig. 1) shows:

a-na-kuI.dsin-PAP.MEŠ-SU šar4kurAŠ na4na-aḫ-bu-[ṣ]u an-ni-u a-naIaš-šur-DINGIR.MU-TI.LA.[B]I ˹DUMU˺-[ia]

at-ti-din man-nu šá TA pa-ni-šú TA DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU.ME DUMU.ME-šú i-na-áš-šú-u-nidŠÁR šar4 DINGIR.MEŠ

˹a-di˺ DUMU.MEŠ-šú TI.LA li-ki-mu-šú-nu a-du ma-li-ke-e-šú MU-šú-nu NUMUN-šú-nu ina KUR lu-ḫal-li-qu

“I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, have presented this naḫbuṣu to my son Aššur-ila'a-muballissu. Whoever takes it away from him, from his children (or) his grandchildren, may Aššur, king of the gods, take the life of his children (and) make the name (and) seed of his counsellors disappear from the land.”

With the curse-formula compare D. D. Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (OIP 2), 139, 68–72 and 147, 36–39 and 148, 27–29. The plural forms here are presumably the result of abbreviating a longer original. Note the use of the preposition adi/adu, “as for, concerning”, for which the current dictionaries give only Old Assyrian attestations.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , Spring 1980 , pp. 84 - 86
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1980

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References

1 Preusser, C., Die Paläste in Assur (WVDOG 66), 20–33Google Scholar, Abb. 3a and e, and pls. 18 and 20b and b1; Messerschmidt, L., KAH I, no. 52Google Scholar; and Luckenbill, D. D., ARAB II, § 721Google Scholar.

2 For partial duplicates see AfO 21 (1966), 20Google Scholar; and for the commentary see BRM 4, 32Google Scholar.

3 RA 55 (1961), 152–153Google ScholarPubMed.