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mace
;
votive offering
Object Type
mace
votive offering
Museum number
90852
Description
Stone mace head; 24ll incised cuneiform inscription in Old Akkadian referring to the object as a votive offering.
Authority
Ruler:
La-arab
Cultures/periods
Akkadian
Production date
2147BC-2141BC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Hormuzd Rassam
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Abu Habba (Sippar)
Materials
stone
Technique
incised
Dimensions
Diameter:
19.70 centimetres
Height:
16.80 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Previously described as alabaster.
Bibliographic references
Leichty E 1986a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume VI: Tablets from Sippar, I
(p.213)
Walker CBF & Collon 1980a / Hormuzd Rassam's excavations for the British Museum at Sippar in 1881-1882
(p.100, no.42)
King 1910a / A history of Sumer and Akkad
(pl. facing p. 306)
Sollberger E & Kupper J R 1971a / Inscriptions royales sumériennes et akkadiennes
(IIJ2a)
Frayne, RIME 2 / Sargonic and Gutian Periods
(RIM.E.2.2.14.1)
Location
On display
(G56/dc9)
Condition
Partly mutilated.
Associated names
Named in inscription:
La-arab
Acquisition date
1882
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
90852
Registration number
1882,0714.1041
Conservation
Treatment
: 16.01.1991