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Object Type
Museum number: 91459
Description: Part of rim, neck and body of translucent white and yellow-brown calcite jar with banding cut horizontally: ledge-shaped rim and one solid oval lug preserved above splayed lappet below shoulder; Egyptian vessel with part of engraved quadrilingual cuneiform inscription of Xerxes I in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian; polished exterior; base missing.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 485BC-465BC
Production place: Made in: Egypt
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Susa, Found in the nothern part of the citadel mound.
Materials
Technique: engraved; polished; cut
Dimensions: Thickness: 0.70 - 1.40 centimetres (thickest at the shoulder); Diameter: 11.20 centimetres (rim); Height: 16 centimetres (extant); Height: 18.40 centimetres (on polished stone mount); Thickness: 7.70 centimetres (on polished stone mount); Width: 11.20 centimetres (on polished stone mount); Width: 9.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Bibliographic references: Searight, Reade & Finkel 2008a / Assyrian Stone Vessels and related material in the British Museum (272, p.33, fig.16); Guide 1900a / A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities (p.100); Curtis & Tallis 2005 / Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia (cat. 141, p. 129); Curtis 1993a / William Kennett Loftus and his excavations at Susa (E.78, pp.26-27, pls.11b (centre) and 19a); Loftus W K 1857a / Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, Shush, "Shushan the palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 (pp.409-14); Weissbach 1911a / Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden (pp.XXVI, 118-119); Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.195); Kent RG 1950a / Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon (pp.115, 157, XVs)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat' 2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire' 1995-2005, 17 Nov-Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/8, no.8 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN Persian Room, wall-case [WC] 15, top shelf. Babylonian & Assyrian Room, wall-cases 28-29 (1900 Guide)
Condition: Fair; incomplete; part of neck and body only.
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1853
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91459
Registration number: 1853,1219.6

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