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1: G. Buccellati, November 2002

Seal legends: Uqnitum

Note on provenance:

The rollings from which the composites shown below are made come from the service wing AK of the Palace. More precise information will be found in the publications.

q1 – NIN / bending figures
q2 – DAM Tupkish / royal consorts
q3 – DAM a / boar
q4 – DAM b / lyre a
q5 – DAM b inverted ? / lyre b
q6 – DAM c / lyre and table a
q7 – DAM d / lyre and table b
q8 – DAM e / lyre and table c

q1 – NIN / bending figures

Identification number	q1
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 14-16
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002
Note	On this seal, the legend is in the same direction as the scene (rather than "sideways"). This is quite exceptional, and may have an intentional symbolic value – i.e., to show the burden of the royal authority over the bending figures, on whose back the case of the legend rests.

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2 *	ZA.GIN₃-ni-tum NIN	Uqnitum alla.	Uqnitum the queen.

The Hurrian reading alla "queen" for the logogram NIN is purely hypothetical. It is conceivable that the logogram might have been read with its Sumerian value, or even that the Akkadian term šarratum may have been used for a queen with an Akkdian name such as Uqnitum. The same applies to the reading ašti for DAM, "wife," in the following seals.

q2 – DAM Tupkish / royal consorts

Identification number	q2
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 15-17
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2 3	GIN₃.ZA-ni-tum DAM Tup-ki-iš	Uqnitum, ašti Tupkiš.	Uqnitum, the wife of Tupkish.

q3 – DAM a / boar

Identification number	q3
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 15, 17
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2	GIN₃.ZA-ni-tum DAM	Uqnitum, ašti.	Uqnitum, the wife.

q4 – DAM b / lyre a

Identification number	q4
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 15, 17f.
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2	ZA.GIN₃-ni-tum DAM	Uqnitum, ašti.	Uqnitum, the wife.

q5 – DAM b inverted ? / lyre b

Identification number	q5
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 15, 19
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

Note.

No cuneiform legend is preserved in the 3 rollings preserved from this seal, but it seems reasonable to assume that an inverted cuneiform text matched the inverted scene.

q6 – DAM c / lyre and table a

Identification number	q6
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 19-20
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2	ZA.GIN₃-ni-tum DAM	Uqnitum, ašti.	Uqnitum, the wife.

q7 – DAM d / lyre and table b

Identification number	q7
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 19-20
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2	[ZA.GIN₃]-^[ni]^- -tum DAM	Uqnitum, ašti.	Uqnitum, the wife.

q8 – DAM e / lyre and table c

Identification number	q8
Publications	1995-96 G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati: pp. 19-20
Language	Hurrian (?)
Date	Early Naram-Sin
Entry author and date	G. Buccellati, November 2002

l.	graphemic transliteration	phonemic transcription	morpho-lexical translation
1 2	GIN₃!?.ZA!?-ni!?- -[t]um!? ^[D]^AM	Uqnitum, ašti.	Uqnitum, the wife.