door-sill
- Museum number
- 90851
- Description
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Bronze door-sill, originally of Nebuchadnezzar II, with recess for the door post; made by casting; the pattern represents a carpet; archaizing script.
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres (at edge)
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Length: 164 centimetres
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Width: 53 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The door-slab, which has been cut in two, had probably been relaid about 268BC under the Seleucid Greek emperor Antiochus I, the last ruler known to have restored this temple. It was cleaned at the British Museum immediately after its acquisition and this was reported in the BM Return for 1882 (p.21).
Langdon, VAB 4, 200-201, Neb. no. 34.
- Location
- On display (G55/dc4)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 26 Jun-5 Oct, Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum-Pergamonmuseum, 'Babylon, Myth and Truth'
2008 14 Mar-2 Jun, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 'Babylon'
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90851
- Registration number
- 1880,1112.2166
