Ur Box inscription

The Ur Box inscription is a 7th century BCE Phoenician inscription on the lid of an ivory box found in Ur in 1927 during the excavations of Leonard Woolley (a joint excavation by the British Museum and Penn Museum).

[1] It is currently in the archives of the British Museum, with ID number BM 120528.

’MTB‘L, daughter of PṬ’S, servant of our lord(?

In his days, (the days) of our lord... son of YSD/YSR.It was found beneath "Nebuchadnezzar's pavement of the north-east chamber of the sanctuary E-nun-mah", providing a lower limit for the dating of the box.

The box probably reached Mesopotamia in the course of the Syrian wars [i.e. the Neo-Assyrian conquests]".