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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.39
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Upper part of a clay tablet, remains of four columns of text, according to colophon, 10th tablet of series, containing explanatory list of words arranged according to the various derivations of Assyrian stems, adding sometimes glosses, at the lower part of column 2, corresponding to the upper part of column 3 on reverse, a piece is broken out, 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:
17.50 centimetres
(complete (includes all joins))
Thickness:
2.90 centimetres
(complete (includes all joins))
Width:
12.10 centimetres
(complete (includes all joins))
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Attached to K.153. Cf. also Bezold, C. 1886. ‘Kurzgefasster Überblick über die babylonisch-assyrische literatur’. Leipzig : O. Schulze, p.208, n.2, and 'Guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery' (1885), p.143, no.3.
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
(p.9-10)
Rawlinson H C & Norris E 1866a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, II
(20 f.)
Oppert 1859 / Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert: Déchiffrement des incriptions cunéiformes
(pp.53, 359)
(translation of colophon)
MSL 16 / A reconstruction of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists 16. The series SIG7.ALAN = Nabnitu
(p. 117)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P365272)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P365272)
Location
On display
(G55/dc8)
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.39
Joined objects
Joined Tablet Group:
G10924
(2 objects)