brick
- Museum number
- 90798
- Description
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Fragment of fired clay brick; Gudea BH lines 2-8 and 10-13; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in two columns of seven and four lines respectively.
- Dimensions
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Length: 14 centimetres
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Thickness: 8 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – de Sarzec, DC pl. 37 no. 3; C – VS 1, 17; T & Tr – SAK 142 Gudea V; B – Borger, HKL 1, 438 and Farber, An Or 29A, 67*; Pr – Girsu (Tello).
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 14 x 12 x 8 cm.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; incomplete.
- 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
- 90798
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.357
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.143 (exhibition number)
