tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.160
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Upper part of a clay tablet, 3 pieces, beginning of obverse and the end of reverse are wanting, astrological forecasts, a copy of the so-called Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa, Neo-Assyrian.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard (et al)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 17.14 centimetres; Thickness: 2.22 centimetres; Width: 9.20 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Cf. Lenormant, F., 1875. ‘La divination et la science des preśages chez les Chaldéens’. Paris : Maisonneuve, p. 21 f., n. 4; and 'Guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery' (1885), p. 153, No. 41.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.42); Rawlinson H C & Smith G 1870a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, III (63); Sayce 1893 (p.316 ff); Bosanquet & Sayce 1880 (p.566 ff); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P393774) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P393774)
Location: On display (G55/dc8)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2009 March 12-August 30, Italy, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 'Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope' 1999 14 Nov-2000 20 Feb, Switzerland, Zurich, The Museum Rietberg, Oracle – Looking into the Future 1990 6 May-9 Dec, Austria, Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen, Mensch und Kosmos
Associated names: Associated with: Ammisaduqa; Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.160
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Nov 1969

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