brick
- Museum number
- 137495
- Description
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Fired clay brick from the ziggurat at Ur; Ur-Nammu no. 1; cuneiform inscription stamped on face with two accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks near one edge.
- Dimensions
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Length: 30 centimetres
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Length: 12 inches
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Thickness: 6 centimetres
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Thickness: 2 inches
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Width: 30 centimetres
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Width: 12 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – Boson, Aegyptus 15, 420 no. 1; C – CT 21, 4; T – SAK 186 Ur-engur a; Tr – IRSA III A 1 b; B – Hallo, HUCA 33, 24 Ur-Nammu 1 and Borger, HKL 1, 227 and 2, 127; Pr – Ur.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 32/29 x 32/28.5 x 7/5 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Ur-Nammu no. 1 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- On display (G1/wp68/sh5)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003- Nov- BM, G1/Enlightenment
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 137495
- Registration number
- 1935,0112.116
