brick
- Museum number
- 90275
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 10; cuneiform inscription on edge in forty-seven lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 32 centimetres
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Thickness: 8 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Previously known only from cylinders.
T – Langdon, VAB 4, 96-97 nr. 10; Tr – Langdon, and von Soden, SAHG 285 nr. 28 b; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 225 and 249-251; Pr – Larsa.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 33 x 33/32 x 8.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 10 bricks catalogued).
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Bezold, Catalogue p. 332 gives br. 500 as a duplicate, but that is 1979,1220.167 (BM. 90274) which is Sargon II D.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- 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
- 90275
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.168
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.476 (exhibition number)