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Inscriptions on Lapis Lazuli Tablets (text no. 62)
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A small, badly damaged lapis-lazuli tablet that may have served as an amulet is inscribed with a short dedication to a deity, most likely Marduk (based on the preserved epithets).
Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003761/] of Ashurbanipal 62.
Commentary
The tablet, of which only the left portion remains, was discovered at Nineveh by R. Campbell Thompson (find spot not recorded). Each line of text is separated by a horizontal ruling. The script is a mixture of Assyrian and contemporary Babylonian sign forms, with Assyrian forms predominating; this is typical for Assyrian inscriptions written on stone.
Obverse of BM 98865 (text no. 62), a lapis-lazuli tablet inscribed with a text addressed to the god Marduk.
Reverse of BM 98865 (text no. 62), a stone tablet of Ashurbanipal found by R. Campbell Thompson at Nineveh.
Bibliography
Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers
Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'Inscriptions on Lapis Lazuli Tablets (text no. 62)', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/RINAP51TextIntroductions/LapisLazuliTabletstext62/]