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prism
Object Type
prism
Museum number
121006
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Hollow, hexagonal clay prism, flat base, slightly convex top, circular holes in middle of top and base, Ashurbanipal, collection of building inscriptions relating the restoration of temples in Ashur, Babylon, Borsippa, Kutha, Tarbisu, Harran, Nineveh, the conquest of Elam as a consequence of which the revered statue of the goddess Nana was returned to Uruk, and the rebuilding of the Bit-akili of Ishtar in Nineveh; dated [646 BC] Ululu 24, limmu Nabu-shar-ahheshu, governor of Samerina; 54, 46 + ?, 52, 52, 51, 33 + ? lines of inscription, Neo-Assyrian.
Authority
Ruler:
Ashurbanipal
Eponym:
Nabu-shar-ahheshu
Regnal date
24/6/1
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Reginald Campbell Thompson
Excavated by:
R W Hutchinson
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Temple of Nabu (Nineveh)
, Beneath floor of S.E.door
Materials
clay
Dimensions
Height:
23.01 centimetres
(max)
Width:
9.84 centimetres
(base)
Width:
6.35 centimetres
(sides)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Lambert & Millard 1968a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum: Second Supplement
Campbell Thompson 1931 / The Prisms of Esarhaddon and of Ashurbanipal found at Nineveh 1927-8
(pp.29-36, pls.14-18)
Location
On display
(G1/wp71/sh3)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: G89/ASSB/3, until spring 2002 Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Ashurbanipal
Named in inscription:
Sennacherib
Named in inscription:
Ashur
Named in inscription:
Bel
Named in inscription:
Ishtar
Named in inscription:
Ea
Named in inscription:
Daianu
Named in inscription:
Marduk
Named in inscription:
Belit
Named in inscription:
Sarpanit
Named in inscription:
Sin
Named in inscription:
Nusku
Named in inscription:
Nergal
Named in inscription:
Shamash
Named in inscription:
Nabu
Named in inscription:
Ningal
Named in inscription:
Ninlil
Named in inscription:
Nana
Named in inscription:
Sargon II
Associated places
Named in inscription:
North Iraq
Named in inscription:
Babylon
Named in inscription:
South Iraq
Named in inscription:
Borsippa
Named in inscription:
Elam
Named in inscription:
Nineveh (Iraq)
Named in inscription:
Ashur
Named in inscription:
Samaria (Palestine)
Acquisition date
1929
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
121006
Registration number
1929,1012.2
Joined objects
Joined Tablet Group:
G13651
(2 objects)
Conservation
Treatment
: 15 May 2003