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Object Type
Museum number: 90146
Description: Fired clay brick; Nabonidus no. 12; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in three lines.
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Cultures/periods
Production place: Made in: Asia
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 34.50 centimetres; Thickness: 8 centimetres; Width: 33.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: P – Jordan, Uruk-Warka pl. 107a; C, T & Tr – Schott, Eanna pl. 30 b & c and p. 61 nos. 28 & 29; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 348-349; Pr – Larsa and Uruk.; Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 34.5/32.5 x 33.5/32.5 x 10/8 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nabonidus no. 12 bricks catalogued).
Bibliographic references: Walker 1981a / Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum (110); Schaudig H 2001a / Die Inschriften Nabonids von Babylon und Kyros' des Grossen (p. 337, 1.5a 1); Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.79)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair
Associated names
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: 90146
Registration number: 1979,1220.69
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: br.507 (exhibition number)

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