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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
118553
Description
Stone bowl; carved from speckled green and white stone; broken; small circular base; two cuneiform inscriptions.
Authority
Ruler:
Shulgi
Ruler:
Naram-Sin
Cultures/periods
Bronze Age
Akkadian
(first inscription)
Third Dynasty of Ur
(second inscription)
Production date
2400BC-2050BC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Leonard Woolley
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Ur (historic - city)
Materials
stone
Technique
carved
Dimensions
Diameter:
2.31 inches
(base)
Height:
7.50 centimetres
Width:
16 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Gadd & Legrain, UET I / Royal Inscriptions
(no.24A, pls E:24, IV:24A, T.F.)
(published as "black and white granite")
Potts T F 1989a / Foreign Stone Vessels of the Late Third Millennium B.C. from Southern Mesopotamia: Their Origins and Methods of Exchange
(fig. 11)
Potts T 1994a / Mesopotamia and the East. An Archaeological and Historical Study of Foreign Relations ca. 3400 - 2000 BC
(p.234)
(Inscription D)
Frayne, RIME 2 / Sargonic and Gutian Periods
(RIM.E.2.1.4.41.4)
Frayne, RIME 3/2 / Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC)
(RIM.E.3/2.1.2.89.1)
British Museum 2011a / Splendours of Mesopotamia
(p.60, cat.40)
Location
On display
(G56/dc11)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia'
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Naram-Sin
Named in inscription:
Shulgi
Named in inscription:
Sin
Acquisition name
Division of Finds:
Department of Antiquities of Iraq
Acquisition date
1927
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
118553
Registration number
1927,0527.26
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
U.6355
(excavation number)