tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.2017
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Part of a clay tablet, 3 columns of inscription, list of the names of members of different families, the mention of their trades; their property; and sums total etc., sometimes being added by the scribe, Neo-Assyrian.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Production date: 7thC BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard (et al)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 20.30 centimetres; Width: 5.40 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.386-387); Fales & Postgate 1995 / Imperial Admininstative Records, Part II: Provinical and Military Administration (no. 201); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P334934) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P334934)
Location: On display (G55/dc8)
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.2017
Conservation: Treatment: 23 Jan 1996; Treatment: 01 Jun 2009

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