brick
- Museum number
- 90339
- Description
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Fragment of fired clay brick; Kurigalzu no. 15; cuneiform inscription stamped on edge in nine lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 23.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 7 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The copy in 1 R incorrectly shows a ruling between the two parts of line 6; this does not appear on any British Museum brick. The 1 R copy is presumably taken from 1979,1220.202 (BM. 90339) and 1979,1220.285 (BM. 90583 & 90724), since these are the only bricks which divide line 6 after ‘é’; the remainder divide after ‘ki’. Both types of stamp are illustrated by Al-Jumaily.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 40/29 x 40/27.5 x 11.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Kurigalzu no. 15 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; incomplete.
- 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
- 90339
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.202
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.788 (exhibition number)
