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D, K10060

The script is Neo-Assyrian and very evenly written. The lines are written close together
so that in some places signs from a lower line interfere with those from the line above.^684
Horizontal rulings separate the text into sections.^685 There are no edges preserved, and
being a flake nothing can be said about the thickness of the original tablet. The clay is a
similar colour to K2321 (tablet A of EAE 63) showing relatively uneven firing at very
high temperatures. This suggests the unbaked tablet was broken in antiquity and burned
in a conflagration. The clay composition seems to have been quite free of impurities, with
only a few small stones visible in the cross section.


E, K6883
The script is Neo-Assyrian. The writing is small and even, although the signs are not exe-
cuted with as much precision as tablet B and D. There is one horizontal ruling preserved
that divides the text into sections, but no edges or margins remain.


F, K10473
The script is Neo-Assyrian, and more angular and elongated than the other tablets so far
discussed. Part of the top of this fragment has suffered damage through erosion so only
the signs on the lower half are clearly preserved. The writing is somewhat crowded, and
the horizontal direction of the lines seems to tend upwards to the right. The right margin
is preserved and has no vertical ruling, with text from line 9 extending past the margin
into the edge of the tablet. No horizontal rulings are preserved.


(^684) For example, E on line 5 partially intersects ŠINIG on line 4.
(^685) The horizontal ruling between lines 1 and 2 is also attested in the same place in tablet B.

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