tablet; seal-impression

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Object Type: tablet; seal-impression
Museum number: K.302
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Clay tablet, at the beginning of the remaining part of obverse two seal-impressions, private contract, dated, beginning of obverse and the end of reverse are wanting, Neo-Assyrian.
Authority: Eponym: Ashur-matu-taqqin
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard (et al)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials: clay
Technique: impressed; stamped
Dimensions: Length: 7.60 centimetres (incomplete); Thickness: 2.30 centimetres (complete); Width: 5.30 centimetres (complete)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: legal
Curator's comments: Cf. also Smith, G., 1878. 'The Assyrian Eponym Canon'. London: S. Bagster and Sons, p. 98.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.78); Strassmaier 1882-1886 / Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der assyrischen und akkadischen Wörter: der Cuneiform inscriptions of western Asia, vol. II ; sowie anderer meist unveröffentlichter Inschriften / von J.N. Strassmaier ; Mit zahlreichen engänzungen und verbesserungen und einem Wörterverzeichniss zu den in den Verhandlungen (pp.630, 633, 995, 1088) (extracts); Mattila, SAA 14 / Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šharru-iškun (no. 46); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P335305) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P335305)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.302

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