brick
- Museum number
- 90034
- Description
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Yellowish fired clay brick; nine line inscription of Amar-Suen [Bur Sin] in the centre, stamp impression; second inscription on the left edge.
- Production date
- 2100BC-2000BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 34 centimetres
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Length: 6.50 centimetres (stamp impression)
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Thickness: 6.50 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres (stamp impression)
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Width: 16.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Stone base inscribed "Brick recording the name and titles of Bur-Sin, king of Ur. From Abu-Shahren. [About B.C. 2400]".
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P – MJ 16, 302; C – CT 21, 24; T – SAK 196 Pur-sin b; Tr – IRSA III A 3 b; B – Hallo, HUCA 33, 34-5 and 43 Amar-Sin 2 and Borger, HKL 1, 228; Pr – Adab, Bad-Tibira, Eridu, Girsu (Tello), Isin, Kisurra, Sippar, Tell el-Lahm, Ur (and see Adams, Uruk Countryside 217).
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': Complete Bricks: 33/30.5 x 33/29.5 x 8/5.5 cm; Half-Bricks: 34/30 x 16.5/15.5 x 7.5/7 (indicates range of sizes attested on the Amar-Suen no. 2 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- On display (G1/wp69/sh3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90034
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.29
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 161 (exhibition number)
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Miscellaneous number: 70 (marked on object)
