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-Cuneiform tablet O.3674 bearing the official cylinder seal impression of Ini-Tešub, Hittite viceroy at the city of Karkemish (© KMKG-MRAH).
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De Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG) bewaren een rijke en wereldvermaarde collectie van zegelmateriaal uit het Oude Nabije Oosten. De verzameling omvat stempel- en rolzegels, zegelafdrukken en verzegelingen, toebehorend aan zeer uiteenlopende culturen en daterend van het begin van hun productie tot aan de Romeinse periode. Ze illu...
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... the first, the inscriptions in seal impressions on two cuneiform tablets assign them to two prominent actors known from a corpus of texts established by modern scholars, which reveal insights on the divorce of a king of ancient Ugarit, Ammistamru (13 th century BC). Tablet O.3674 ( fig. 9) 47 bears the official seal of Ini-Tešub, Hittite viceroy of the city of Karkemish. The inscription was composed in Akkadian cuneiform, not in Hittite hieroglyphic as Ini-Tešub's other official ...
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