cast; block

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Object Type: cast; block
Museum number: C.46
Description: Plaster cast of cuneiform inscription in Old Persian; bottom half of inscription of Artaxerxes III Ochus; cast coloured grey.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 358BC-338BC (original); 1837-1901 (cast)
Production place: Original from: Palace of Darius (Persepolis) (Stairway on west side.); Made in: Persepolis (the original); Made in: London (England) (the cast)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 1298 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed); Height: 1092 millimetres; Weight: 68 kilograms (Dimension Size When Packed); Weight: 49 kilograms; Width: 1156 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed); Width: 1070 millimetres; Depth: 219 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed); Depth: 65 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Top half of the inscription is C.45.; The cast is listed as available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "Persia".
Bibliographic references: Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (p.80); Weissbach 1911a / Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden ([VB3] pp.xxix, 128-29); Kent RG 1950a / Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon (A3Pa, pp.114, 156); Smith CH 1931a / Casts of Old Persian Sculptures (pl.6 (bottom centre)); Sharp N n.d. / The Inscriptions in Old Persian Cuneiform (pp.129-31, pl.A3Pa)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1892
Acquisition notes: Mould made during the 1892 expedition headed by Herbert Weld [Blundell]; cast made on return in London.
Department: Middle East
Registration number: C.46

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