tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 93017
Description: Clay tablet; fragment; "Enuma elish" III 47-105?; Late Babylonian?.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Sippar (?)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 2.50 inches; Width: 3.50 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The object was sent for moulding in the Cast Shop in 1965 (returned 25 September), again on 9 and 23 January 1967 and on a further occasion by the Cast Service between 26 November 1974 and 3 January 1975 (Objects to Lab, 6 May 1958-31 December 1970; WAA, 'Objects to Lab' book). The cast was commercially available (listed in the BM Facsimile Service, Catalogue of Replicas),
Bibliographic references: Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.216, pl.44); Pritchard 1950a / Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (pp.64-66); Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3 (p.139)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited Room of Writing, case 5 (until Mar 1992)
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 93017
Registration number: 1888,0419.13
Conservation: Treatment: 10 May 1967; Treatment: 12 Apr 1965

Free entry