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Object Type
Museum number: 90270
Description: Fragment of fired clay brick; Merodach-baladan II no. 2; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in ten lines, with a double-edged stamp.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Warka
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 14 inches; Width: 14 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Joined to BM.90740 (same registration number).; Copy of brick is given in W. K. Loftus and H.A. Churchill, Drawings in Babylonia (manuscript volume in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities), pl. XIX nos. 1 & 2.; Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 51/35 x 36/32.5 x 8.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Marduk-apla-iddina II no. 2(a) bricks catalogued).
Bibliographic references: Walker 1981a / Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum (74); Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.85); Frame, RIMB 2 / Rulers of Babylonia, from the Second Dynasty of Isin to the end of Assyrian domination (1157-612 BC) (RIM.B.6.21.2.8)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair; incomplete.
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 90270
Registration number: 1851,0101.276
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: br.777 (exhibition number)

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