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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.4277
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Fragment of a clay tablet, 22 lines of inscription. 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:
5.08 centimetres
Thickness:
1.90 centimetres
Width:
3.17 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1891a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
Lanfranchi & Parpola, SAA 5 / The correspondence of Sargon II, part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces
(no. 256)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P334831)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P334831)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.4277