tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: K.2361
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a clay tablet, prayer to Nabu. belongs to a class of hymns Neo-Assyrian.
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 6.66 centimetres; Thickness: 3.17 centimetres; Width: 5.71 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Part of K.15248 Part of K. 3193 Part of Sm. 389; This text belongs to a class of hymns the paragraphs of which consist of two or three lines; between each paragraph is a line.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1891a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.436); Brünnow 1889 / Assyrian Hymns (pp.252 ff; pp.236 ff); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P394371) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P394371)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal; Named in inscription: Nabu
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.2361
Joined objects: Joined Tablet Group: G11620 (6 objects)
Conservation: Treatment: 01 Jun 2009; Treatment: 21 Feb 2013

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