tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: 98512
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a clay tablet, vocabulary, 1 + 1 columns of inscription, Neo-Assyrian. Part of an explanatory list. Only the right-hand portion of the column, containing the Assyrian equivalents, is preserved.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Reginald Campbell Thompson
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Temple of Nabu (Nineveh)
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 4.12 centimetres; Width: 6.35 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: RA 17, pp. 201-202
Bibliographic references: King 1914a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum: Supplement; MSL 15 / Series DIRI = (w)atru (p. 134: F)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Acquisition date: 1905
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 98512
Registration number: 1905,0409.18
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Mar 2012

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