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Object Type
Museum number: 22466
Description: Fragment of a limestone slab with five lines of an inscription of Sargon II.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 710BC-705BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Khorsabad
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 6 inches; Width: 7.50 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Sigrist M et al 1996a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, II; Winckler H 1887a / Studien und Beitrage zur babylonisch-assyrisch Geschichte (pp.108-111) (?)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Incomplete.
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1847
Acquisition notes: Entry transcribed from General Register of Antiquities in M.L.A.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 22466
Registration number: 1847,0702.47
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1847,0702.268 (ex); Miscellaneous number: 268 (exhibition number)

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