brick
- Museum number
- 90015
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Ur-Nammu no. 7; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in two columns, with four lines in each; corner missing.
- Dimensions
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Length: 32 centimetres
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Thickness: 7.50 centimetres
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Width: 32 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – King, HAS pl. 28 (after p. 280); C – CT 21, 3; T & Tr – SAK 186 Ur-engur d; B – Hallo, HUCA 33, 25 Ur-Nammu 7; Pr – Uruk (and see Adams, Uruk Countryside p. 217).
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 32/31.5 x 32/31 x 7.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Ur-Nammu no. 7 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
26 March - 30 June 2013, Barcelona, La Caixa Social & Cultural Centre, 'Before the Flood'
- Condition
- Fair; corner missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Acquisition notes
- This registration was given to all bricks in the British Museum's collection which had BM numbers but no identifiable registration, except for those lately registered in the 75-7-25 collection. Almost all of them will have been acquired in the 19th century, since the numbers in the series BM 90000-90825 seem to have been allocated in the late 1890's.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90015
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.14
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.673 (exhibition number)
