brick
- Museum number
- 90635
- Description
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Fragment of fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 43 lines 1-5; cuneiform inscription on face in five lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 11 centimetres
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Thickness: 6 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – Koldewey, Tempel p. 16 Abb. 19 and WEB⁴ p. 61 Abb. 42; C – VS 1, 51; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4, 204-5 no. 43; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 217-8; Pr – Babylon.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 32 x 25 x 9.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 43 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; incomplete.
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- Not previously registered, but either marked 1881,0830 or presumed to belong to this group.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90635
- Registration number
- 1881,0830.886