Two New Seal-Inscriptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10960506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edmond Sollberger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Pages | 63-65 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anatolian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-1546 • E-ISSN: 2048-0849 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3642777 |
| OpenAlex | W2331296654 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The seal-inscriptions published here have been chosen as a fitting, albeit very modest, tribute to Professor Gurney as they both have a faint Hurrian flavour. One appears on the seal of a royal scribe bearing a Hurrian name; the other gives us the name of a new king of Ḫaraḫar, a place currently located in a Hurrian, or Human-influenced, region and whose only hitherto known king bore the Hurrian name, Ankiš-atal. The seals will be fully published by Dr D. Collon in a forthcoming volume of the Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in The British Museum : only the inscriptions are therefore discussed in these pages. 1. BM 102055 = 1905-12-9,3 is a seal of the in-na-ba -type characteristic of the later part of the Third Dynasty of Ur and lingering on into the following period, but it shows clear signs of re-use. The legend (in Akkadian, judging by line 2) reads
Akkadian · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Legend · Seal (emblem · Tribute · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · History · Linguistics and language evolution
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |