brick
- Museum number
- 98067
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 41; cuneiform inscription stamped on face.
- Dimensions
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Length: 6.50 inches
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Width: 14 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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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.
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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).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- 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
