brick
- Museum number
- 90158
- Description
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Fired clay brick; Nebuchadnezzar II no. 39; cuneiform inscription stamped on face in four lines.
- Dimensions
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Length: 31.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 8 centimetres
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Width: 31.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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P – Oberhuber, Bemerkungen pl. XI nr. 2; C – VS 1, 47; T & Tr – Langdon, VAB 4, 202-3 nr. 39; B – Berger, AOAT 4/1, 185-7, and de Meyer, Tell ed-Der II 157; Pr – Babylon, Borsippa, Kish, Eridu, Seleucia, Susa, Tell ed-Der, Tell Nasrat Pasha.
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Measurements given in CBF Walker (1981), 'Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum': 34/31.5 x 34.30.5 x 8.5/7 cm (indicates range of sizes attested on the Nebuchadnezzar no. 39 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
- 90158
- Registration number
- 1979,1220.75
