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prism
Object Type
prism
Museum number
78223
Description
Clay seven-sided prism with cuneiform inscription recording Esarhaddon's restoration of Babylon; the symbols on its top and bottom ends have been taken to represent the king's name; broken; impressions in both ends; column i when complete had 48 ll.
Authority
Ruler:
Esarhaddon
Cultures/periods
Assyrian
Production date
670BC
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Hillah, Al-
Materials
fired clay
Dimensions
Length:
4.50 inches
(of no.77)
Length:
5.50 inches
(of no.78)
Length:
11.43 centimetres
Width:
4 inches
(of no.77)
Width:
4 inches
(of no.78)
Width:
10.16 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Pinches, CT 44 / Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Miscellaneous Texts
(plates 2-4, no. 3)
(copy)
Borger R 1956a / Die Inschriften Asarhaddons Koenigs von Assyrien
(pp. 10-29)
(as Rezension A)
Luckenbill D D 1927a / Historical records of Assyria from Sargon to the end
(pp. 242 and 244-249)
(paragraphs 639 and 647-659)
Finkel & Reade 1996a / Assyrian hieroglyphs
Location
On display
(G55/dc3)
Acquisition name
From:
Sir Ernest A T Wallis Budge
Acquisition date
1888
Acquisition notes
Acquired by the British Museum as a result of Budge's second mission to Egypt and Mesopotamia in 1887-1888; the mission was intended to investigate the "leakage" of tablets from sites supposedly guarded on behalf of the British Museum. Further notes on acquisition and bibliographic references relating to acquisition in catalogue introduction pp.xv-xvii.
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
78223
Registration number
1888,0512,Bu.77-78
Conservation
Treatment
: 08 Jan 2015
Treatment
: 18.6.18