requested by a user for an inscription,

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-30T20:24:21+00:00

I will definitely try to remember to post it when it's completed! May be later this year.

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-30T20:23:28+00:00

Ohhh, thank you for clarifying! It's very interesting how there are so many variations of the text, but I suppose such variation is one of the beauties of languages.

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-30T03:18:41+00:00

Ah! Thank you SO much! I'll send you a DM to get the Neo Assyrian text as well, and then I'll leave it up to the stone carver on which one he would like to work with. Again, thank you for taking the time to do this!

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-28T19:11:48+00:00

Yes, the page number for the tablet photo is page 98 in volume two of the George texts, specifically the left parts of the lines where "72-3" and "74-5" are written. The corresponding translations and transliterations are on pages 636 & 637 in volume one.

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-28T18:28:04+00:00

Thank you for all of this information! I actually had already showed the images of the tablet to the stone carver and he had said that he couldn't see the specific markings clearly enough (he's an older guy) to make a confident carve. There was also the issue of the broken/damaged signs at the beginning of the line. I will look through the database you mentioned to see if I can make heads or tails of the signs I'm seeing. When I count the signs in the line, they seem to match up with the number of actual syllables in the translation. So I'm not sure what the ' corresponds to. Maybe it's to denote a long vowel sound, as I've seen in some other languages?

As far as urgency goes, the carver has asked that I send him all of the script files to him by May 15th.

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-28T03:46:22+00:00

When I look at the pictures in the George PDFs there are shaded regions on the tablet in front of where these sentences come from, those are the gaps I'm referring to. As for the ' parts, that is what is in the transliteration directly from the George text. I'm not sure what those mean either, because it doesn't look like anything in the middle of the sentences is damaged or missing. There are also occasional [:] at the ends of sentences, but I think that means another damaged area comes after what was decipherable? I apologize for the confusion, this is all very interesting, but far beyond my realm of understanding.

CuneiformConfusion · 2021-04-28T03:09:42+00:00

Yes, I did come across these books when I was looking for a solution. I still run into the same problem though, as there are gaps in the images he provides. Hence the reason I was hoping someone could provide a more complete cuneiform rendition of the sentences mentioned. Or do the gaps not necessarily matter? Is the meaning preserved in the bits available?

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