tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.1999
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a clay picture tablet, 96 lines of inscription, the upper part of obverse and the lower part of reverse are wanting, part of a copy of an omen-text, in Column III, lines 4 ff., the scribe began several of the lines more to the right than usually, thus three times leaving some blank space at the left hand side of the cuneiform text, which he filled up with geometrical figures, 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: 9.30 centimetres (incomplete); Thickness: 2.40 centimetres (complete); Width: 10.20 centimetres (complete)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.382); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P394129) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P394129)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.1999

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