tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: K.2847
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a clay tablet, astronomical, 22 lines of inscription in 3 divisions on obverse, 22 lines in 6 divisions on reverse. Neo-Assyrian.
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 10.16 centimetres; Width: 6.98 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Diviner's Manual. Study by Oppenheim in JNES 33 (1974), 197-220.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1891a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum; CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P394713) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P394713)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.2847
Joined objects: Joined Tablet Group: G13947 (2 objects)
Conservation

Free entry