brick
- Museum number
- 90151
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Nabonidus no. 15; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in five lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 37 centimetres
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Thickness: 6.50 centimetres
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Width: 37 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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C – UET 1, 186; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4, 296-297 nr. 15; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 352; Pr – Ur.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 37.5/37 x 37/36 x 7/6 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nabonidus no. 15 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
- 90151
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.73
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: br.511 (exhibition number)