dedicatory cone

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Object Type
Museum number: 91036
Description: Baked clay cone; documents grant of land; broken at base; eleven lines of inscription in two columns. The lower part of the cone is now broken away, but parts of every line of the inscription are reserved. The two columns of the text are inscribed, side b
Authority: Ruler: Kadashman-Enlil I (?); Ruler: Kadashman-Enlil II (?)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1360BC-1260BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Abu Habba (Sippar)
Materials
Dimensions: Diameter: 17 centimetres; Height: 25 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: In spite of its small size this inscription is of considerable importance, for the reading of the name of Kadashman-Enlil in the second column definitely disproves the assumption that Kadashman-Kharbe, the father of Kurigalzu (mentioned in the first column), was to be identified with Kadashman, the correspondent of Amenophis III. It is true that the god Kharbe was considered to be the Kassite counterpart of Enlil.
Bibliographic references: Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.64); Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3 (p.85); King 1912a / Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum (no.I, pl.1e, pp.3-7); De Meyer L 1980a / Tell ed-Dēr III (106f, no.107) (article by C.Walker); Winckler H 1887a / Studien und Beitrage zur babylonisch-assyrisch Geschichte (p.308)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Broken at base.
Associated names: Named in inscription: Kurigalzu; Named in inscription: Kadashman-Enlil I; Named in inscription: Enlil
Associated places: Named in inscription: Babylon
Acquisition date: 1883
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91036
Registration number: 1883,0118.704
Additional IDs: Other BM number: 12179 (previous big number)

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