Ur Box inscription
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It is currently in the archives of the British Museum, with ID number BM 120528.
Description
The box measures 11 x 5 cm. The script resembles the Neirab steles.
Inscription
Guzzo proposes a translation of:
This coffer here(?) ’MTB‘L, daughter of PṬ’S, servant of our lord(?), has offered
as a gift(?) to her lady Ashtart; may she bless her. In his days, (the days) of our lord... son of YSD/YSR.
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Discovery
It was found beneath "Nebuchadnezzar's pavement of the north-east chamber of the sanctuary E-nun-mah", providing a lower limit for the dating of the box.
Interpretation
Eric Burrows, in his 1927 interpretation of the inscription, stated: "Was the inscription made at Ur or in Phoenicia? Probably in Phoenicia... The box probably reached Mesopotamia in the course of the Syrian wars [i.e. the Neo-Assyrian conquests]".