The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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Brussels Tablets: SUB 2 line 2; Brussels tablets, contents of which were released bit by bit in articles by E. Lipiński. A complete corpus of some 60 in total were supposed to be published by D. Homès-Frederiq, P. Garelli and E. Lipiński in a volume entitled Archives d'un centre provincial de l'Empire assyrien Documents du Proche-Orient ancien. Épigraphie 2 (Bruxelles : Musees royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1993.), but the volume proved difficult to find, apparently because it was never published due to damage sustained to the tablets themselves during preparation. Subsequently Lipiński finally produced a more-or-less official publication of less than half of the full corpus of Aramaic texts in Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics III: Ma'lānā, (Peeters, 2010), but his readings and interpretations of the more difficult tablets remain quite dubious; so we have not incorporated such readings into to the database. Readers should consult the review of that volume by F.M.Fales in Bibliotheca Orientalis 70(2013):204-10.

Brussels 48: Text per E. Lipiński, "Straw in the Neo-Assyrian Period," in Built on
Solid Rock
: Studies in Honour of Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen on the Occasion
of his 65th Birthday April 11th 1997, ed. E. Wardini, Oslo: Instituttet for
sammenlignende kulturforsking, 1997, p. 190.
See now also Lipiński (2010) pp. 87ff.