vase
- Museum number
- 88392
- Description
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Fragment of calcite vase with six line inscription dedicated to the goddess Bau by an ensi of Lagash.
- Production date
- 2100BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.13 inches
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Width: 2.25 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscription sugests with almost total certainty that the findspot of this piece was the site of ancient Girsu (Telloh). The jar on which the inscription was added was originally imported from south-east Iran, possibly from the Shahdad area, and most likely came via the Persian Gulf.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; incomplete.
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Acquisition notes
- Offer of acquisition reported in a letter by Gejou dated 4th December 1900 (ME Correspondence, 1901 A-K, item 271); acquisition reported in BM Returns 1901, p.57, where this piece is described as "Part of a vase inscribed with a dedicatory text in honour of the goddess Bau, by an early Sumerian 'patesi', or governor. About B.C. 2300".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 88392
- Registration number
- 1901,0209.109
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 78 (exhibition number (red))
