brick
- Museum number
- 90114
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 45; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in thirteen lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 33.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 33.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – 1922 Guide pl. XXX (after p. 78); C-1 R 52, 5; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4, 204-205 nr. 45; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 216; Pr – Larsa.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 35.5/33 x 34/32 x 9.5/8 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 45 bricks catalogued).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- 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
- 90114
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.58
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.489 (exhibition number)