brick
- Museum number
- 90278
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Shulgi no.5; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in seven lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 35 centimetres
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Thickness: 8 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – MJ 16, 301; C – CT 21, 11; T & Tr – SAK 190 Dungi b; B – Hallo, HUCA 33,29 Šulgi 5, and Borger, HKL 1, 228 & 2, 127; Pr – Ur.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 36/27.5 x 36/25.5 x 9/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Shulgi no. 5 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- 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
- 90278
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.171
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.163 (exhibition number)