Making tablets or taking tablets?: ṭuppa/u ṣabātu in Assyria

Middle Assyrian texts have a phrase ṭuppa ṣab¯atu, which is usually understood to mean “to take (possession of) a tablet”. There is a corresponding type of tablet called a ṭuppu ṣabittu (plural (ṭuppatu ṣabbutātu). This article contends that ṭuppa ṣabātu is a technical term for drawing up a formal d...

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Main Author: Postgate, John N. 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
In: Iraq
Year: 2011, Volume: 73, Pages: 149-160
Further subjects:B Creditors
B Debt
B Idioms
B Legal documents
B Scribes
B Writing tablets
B Archives
B Property deeds
B Verbs
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