tablet
- Museum number
- 90922
- Description
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Black diorite tablet: carved with labelled scene on the obverse showing Nabu-aplu-iddina, the priest, standing with his right hand raised in the presence of the king. Symbols present on top and obverse of tablet: On top of the tablet, (1) Crescent, (2) Solar disc, (3) Eight-pointed star, (4) Reversed yoke; on the left side of the tablet near the top, (5) Lamp; on the Obverse, (6) Spear-head upon a shrine, (7) Ram-headed crook upon a shrine, (8) Two rods, joined in the centre, upon a shrine, (9) and (10) Horned headdresses upon shrines, (11) Eagle-headed mace, and (12) Lion-headed mace; on the right side of the tablet near the top, (13) Lightning-fork. Inscribed on obverse and reverse with a copy of a deed recording the restoration of certain land by Nabu-aplu-iddina, the king, to Nabu-aplu-iddina, the priest, the son of Atnaa, who laid claim to it as having formed part of his father's house. It would appear that Nabu-aplu-iddina, the priest, had already recovered a portion of his ancestral estate as the result of an appeal to the king; and he now succeeded in regaining three 'gur' of corn-land, lying between the Euphrates and the Mashe Canal, in addition to five gardens, all of which he added to Bit-Atnaa. The deed is dated on the twentieth of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Nabu-aplu-iddina, and it was sealed with the royal seal in Babylon in the presence of five high officials, whose names are enumerated.
- Production date
- 875BC-850BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 3.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.60 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The object was sent for moulding in the Cast Department on 10 July 1961 and again by Mr Derek Giles on 17 February 1977 (WAA, 'Objects to Lab' book). In set with 1881,0428.33 (BM.91002).
Moulded and cast; cast priced at 14 shillings by D. Brucciani (1910) and catalogued as "tablet sculptured in relief with a scene representing the worship of the Sun-god in the temple at Sippar, and inscribed with a record of the restoration of the temple, and particulars of the services to be held". The cast is listed as available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "Boundary Stones and Memorial Tablets".
- Location
- On display (G55/dc2)
- Acquisition date
- 1883
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90922
- Registration number
- 1883,0120.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BM.12051
