brick
- Museum number
- 90056
- Description
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Fired clay brick; thirteen line inscription of Amar-Suen.
- Production date
- 2100BC-2000BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 25.50 centimetres
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Width: 26.50 centimetres
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Depth: 7 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Duplicate of 1979,1220.21 (BM.90024).
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P - King, HSA pl. 32 (after p. 310); C - CT 21, 27; T - SAK 196 Pûr-sin c; Tr - IRSA III A 3 h; B - Hallo, HUCA 33, 35 Amar-Sin 5 and Borger, HKL 1, 228 & 2, 127 and Hallo, RA 73, 88-89, 2; Pr - Eridu, Ur, and see Adams, Uruk Countryside p. 217.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': Complete Bricks 27.5/25.5 x 27/25 x 7.5/5.5 cm; Half-Bricks: 27.5/26 x 18/13.5 x 7.5 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Amar-Suen no. 5 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- On display (G1/wp69/sh8)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003
- 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 1890s.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90056
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.45
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.113 (exhibition number)
