monument; votive offering

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Object Type: monument; votive offering
Museum number: 22454
Description: Limestone votive monument; figure on the left is Hammurapi in person, with his right arm raised in worship; inscription; 2 columns; 10 + 10 ll.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1792BC-1750BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Abu Habba (Sippar)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 39 centimetres; Thickness: 5.08 centimetres; Width: 40.64 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Leichty E 1986a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume VI: Tablets from Sippar, I (p.211); Sigrist M et al 1996a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, II; De Meyer L 1980a / Tell ed-Dēr III (no.53, pp.101-102); King, LIH I / The letters and inscriptions of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, vol. I (lxvii and 126-7 no.66); King, LIH III / The letters and inscriptions of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, vol. III (195-6); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (31-32 and pl.IX .1); Strommenger E & Hirmer M 1962a / Funf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien (88 and pl.161); Sollberger E & Kupper J R 1971a / Inscriptions royales sumériennes et akkadiennes (IVC 60); Frayne, RIME 4 / Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC) (RIM.E.4.3.6.2001); British Museum 2011a / Splendours of Mesopotamia (pp.64-65, cat.45)
Location: On display (G56/dc24)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia' 2008 26 Jun-5 Oct, Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum-Pergamonmuseum, 'Babylon, Myth and Truth' 2008 14 Mar-2 Jun, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 'Babylon' 2004 26 Jun-29 Aug, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2004 10 Apr-13 Jun, Fukuoka Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2004 17 Jan-28 Mar, Kobe City Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2003 18 Oct-14 Dec, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures Babylonian Room, wall-case 7
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription: Ashratum; Named in inscription: Itur-Ashdum
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 22454
Registration number: 1882,0714.993
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Oct 2010; Treatment: 27.02.1991

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