prism

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Object Type
Museum number: 122612
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Part of top of an octagonal clay prism, annals of Sennacherib, defeat of Sidon, installation, of Tuba'al as king, the spoil of Judah, the spoil of Tilgarimmu, 8 + 9 + 6 + 6 + 9 lines of inscription, Neo-Assyrian; loose flakes.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials
Dimensions: Diameter: 14 centimetres; Height: 4 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Lambert & Millard 1968a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum: Second Supplement; Hall H R 1931a / The excavations at Ur: 1929-30 (p.76)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Incomplete; loose flakes.
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1930
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 122612
Registration number: 1930,0508.1
Conservation

Free entry