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Object Type
Museum number: 98067
Description: Fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 41; cuneiform inscription stamped on face.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Babylon (Iraq) (? in register)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 6.50 inches; Width: 14 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: P – Wiseman, Illustrations 71 no. 66; C – VS 1 49; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4 202-3 nr. 41; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1 195-200, de Meyer, Tell ed-Der II 157, and Foxvog RA 72, 46, 4; Pr – Babylon, Isin, Kish, Seleucia, Susa and Tell ed-Der.; Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': Complete Bricks 34/31 x 33.5/26.5 x 9/4.5 cm; Half-Bricks 34/33 x 16.5 x 9/8 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 41 bricks catalogued).
Bibliographic references: Walker 1981a / Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum (102); Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.76)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Austen Henry Layard (?); Previous owner/ex-collection: Col R Taylor (?)
Acquisition date: 1903
Acquisition notes: Budge's Report to Trustees says that Layard presented this collection to the Guildhall but no. 7 (BM.98069) belonged to Colonel Taylor, Madras Calvalry so perhaps did the others.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 98067
Registration number: 1903,1012.5

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