figurine

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Object Type
Museum number: 113896
Description: Copper alloy foundation figure carrying a basket on its head, with 9 + 3 lines of inscription. Inscription of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, commemorating his building of Inanna's temple Eanna in Uruk.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2112BC-2095BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Temple of Inanna (Warka)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 27.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.85); van Buren E D 1931a / Foundation figurines and offerings (pl.10, fig.18); Zervos C 1935a / L'art de la Mesopotamie (p.225); Strommenger E & Hirmer M 1962a / Funf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien (pl.46); Ellis R S 1968a / Foundation deposits in Ancient Mesopotamia (p.65, n.144); Spycket A 1981a / La statuaire du Proche-Orient Ancien (p.205); Frayne, RIME 3/2 / Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC) (RIM.E.3/2.1.1.34.6a); Saggs 1995a / Babylonians (p.86, fig.86)
Location: On display (G35/dc14)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2000, Barcelona, 'Foundation of the City' 1999 2 Feb-18 Jul, Germany, Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Von Babylon Bis Jerusalem: Die Welt der altorientalischen Konigsstadte
Associated names: Named in inscription: Inanna; Named in inscription: Ur-Nammu
Associated places: Named in inscription: Temple of Inanna
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1919
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 113896
Registration number: 1919,0712.645
Conservation: Treatment: 07 Dec 1993; Treatment: 01 Aug 1990

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