cylinder

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Object Type
Museum number: 119014
Description: Fired clay cylinder. Scholarly copy of the inscription on a brick of a much earlier king, Amar-Sin. Copy written in the time of Sin-balatsu-iqbi.
Authority: Ruler: Ashurbanipal; Ruler: Amar-Suen
Cultures/periods
Production date: 675BC-655BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ur (historic - city)
Materials
Dimensions: Diameter: 6 centimetres; Height: 10.80 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Gadd & Legrain, UET I / Royal Inscriptions (172); Woolley 1965a / The Kassite period and the period of the Assyrian kings (pp.4 and n.3, 102); Woolley 1962a / The Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods (pl.29, pp.17, 111); Sollberger E & Kupper J R 1971a / Inscriptions royales sumériennes et akkadiennes (p.149, III.A.3.e); Frame, RIMB 2 / Rulers of Babylonia, from the Second Dynasty of Isin to the end of Assyrian domination (1157-612 BC) (RIM.B.6.32.2016); Frayne, RIME 3/2 / Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC) (RIM.E.3/2.1.3.11)
Location: On display (G55/dc5)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Amar-Suen; Associated with: Sin-balatsu-iqbi
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1927
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 119014
Registration number: 1927,1003.9
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: U.2757 (excavation number)
Conservation

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