Facebook
sprite-icon-instagram
Twitter
sprite-icon-wechat
Weibo
X
sprite-icon-youtube
sprite-icon-accessible
Group 3
sprite-icon-arrow
sprite-icon-audio-description
sprite-icon-calendar
sprite-icon-camera
UI/Chevron/Large/Black
sprite-icon-chevron
Artboard 1
sprite-icon-copyright
sprite-icon-data
sprite-icon-download
sprite-icon-grid
sprite-icon-image
i
sprite-icon-list
sprite-icon-magazine
sprite-icon-maximise
sprite-icon-museum
sprite-icon-osd-minus
sprite-icon-osd-plus
Group 6
sprite-icon-pin
sprite-icon-plus
sprite-icon-print
Fill 1
sprite-icon-share
sprite-icon-shop
sprite-icon-tag
sprite-icon-tea
sprite-icon-ten-percent-tag
Artboard 1
sprite-icon-wallet
sprite-icon-zoom
Skip to main content
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
Menu
Main navigation
Visit
Toggle Visit submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Visit
—
Visit
—
Family visits
—
Group visits
—
Audio app
—
Out-of-hours tours
—
Tours and talks
—
Object trails
—
Accessibility
—
Food and drink
—
Late opening on Fridays
—
Museum map
Exhibitions and events
Collection
Toggle Collection submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Collection
—
Collection
—
Collection online
—
Galleries
—
Blog
—
The British Museum podcast
Learn
Toggle Learn submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Learn
—
Learn
—
Schools
—
Communities
—
Adult learning
—
Young people
Membership
Toggle Membership submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Membership
—
Membership
—
Members' events
—
Young Friends
—
Existing Members
—
Visiting as a Member
Support us
Toggle Support us submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Support us
—
Donate
—
Corporate support
—
Become a Patron
—
Supporter case studies
—
Become a Volunteer
—
Existing Patrons
—
Leave a legacy
—
American Friends of the British Museum
Secondary navigation
Shop
Search
Donate
Hide menu
cylinder
Object Type
cylinder
Museum number
22505
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Clay barrel cylinder, inscription of Sargon II, 67 lines of inscription, Neo-Assyrian.
Authority
Ruler:
Sargon II
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
(et al)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Khorsabad
Materials
fired clay
Dimensions
Length:
22.50 centimetres
Weight:
2395 grammes
Width:
22.50 centimetres
Depth:
13 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
royal
commemorative
Curator's comments
No. 3 in a previously issued series of postcards captioned "Assyrian monuments bearing on Bible history in the British Museum".
See also Oppert, J., 1863. ‘Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert’ vol. I. Paris : Imprimerie impériale, Vol. I, p. 353 ff.; Menant, J. 1874. ‘Annales des rois d’Assyrie traduites’. Paris: Maisonneuve et cie., p. 199 ff.; and Peiser, in Schrader, E. ‘Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek / Sammlung von Assyrischen und Babylonischen Texten in umschrift und übersetzung’ Vol. II. Berlin : Reuther's Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 38 ff.
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
(p.331)
Sigrist M et al 1996a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, II
Rawlinson H C & Norris E 1861a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, I: a selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia
(36)
Winckler 1889b / Die Keilschrifttexte Sargons, nach den Papierabklatschen und Originalen neu herausgegeben
(Vol. II, pl.43a)
Oppert 1870 / Les inscriptions de Dour-Sarkayan (Khorsabad) provenant des fouilles de M.Victor.Place, dechiffrées et interprétées par Jules Oppert
Lyon 1883 / Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Königs von Assyrien (722-705 v. Chr.)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P393971)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P393971)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2020 20 Feb-25 Oct, CaixaForum Zaragoza, An Age of Luxury 2019-2020 18 Sep-12 Jan, CaixaForum Madrid, An Age of Luxury 2019 4 Apr-11 Aug, CaixaForum Barcelona, An Age of Luxury 2018 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, An Age of Luxury Babylonian Room, Table-case D
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
22505
Registration number
K.1681