statue

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Object Type
Museum number: 22507
Description: Lower half of a fired clay statue, possibly of Samsuiluna; building inscription A of Samsuiluma.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Sippar (?)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 18.41 centimetres; Width: 7.62 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Previously understood to be an inscribed cone. For the interpretation as the lower part of a statue see Walker and Collon in L. de Meyer (ed.), 'Tell ed-Der', vol. III 106 no.98. LIH 2 98. The object has been split longitudinally and the upper portion - which had the bust and head of the king in question - broken off.
Bibliographic references: Leichty E 1986a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume VI: Tablets from Sippar, I (p.212); Sigrist M et al 1996a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, II; De Meyer L 1980a / Tell ed-Dēr III (no.98, p.106); King, LIH I / The letters and inscriptions of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, vol. I (xvii no.98); King, LIH II / The letters and inscriptions of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, vol. II (199-206); King, LIH III / The letters and inscriptions of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, vol. III (199-206); Sollberger E & Kupper J R 1971a / Inscriptions royales sumériennes et akkadiennes (IVC7b); Frayne, RIME 4 / Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC) (RIM.E.4.3.7.5.2 S)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 22507
Registration number: 1882,0714.1022

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