mace; votive offering

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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
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2147BC-2141BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Abu Habba (Sippar)
Materials
Technique
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
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 90852
Registration number: 1882,0714.1041
Conservation

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