tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.2090
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a clay tablet, picture tablet, 2 pictures, 2 columns of inscription containing part of an omen-text, the scribe began several lines more to the right than usually, thus twice leaving some blank space at the left 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: 6.03 centimetres; Width: 5.71 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Part of K.99
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.404); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P394185) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P394185)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.2090

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