brick
- Museum number
- 90081
- Description
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Fired clay brick of Nebuchadnezzar II; inscribed; 7 lines, 1 column.
- Production date
- 604BC-562BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 16 centimetres (stamp)
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Length: 32.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.30 centimetres (stamp)
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Width: 32 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – Wiseman, Illustrations 71 no. 66; C – VS 1 49; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4 202-3 nr. 41; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1 195-200, de Meyer, Tell ed-Der II 157, and Foxvog RA 72, 46, 4; Pr – Babylon, Isin, Kish, Seleucia, Susa and Tell ed-Der.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': Complete Bricks 34/31 x 33.5/26.5 x 9/4.5 cm; Half-Bricks 34/33 x 16.5 x 9/8 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 41 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90081
- Registration number
- 1825,0503.26
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: R26 (Rich Collection no.)
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Miscellaneous number: br.468 (exhibition number)