tablet
- Museum number
- K.4292
- Title
- Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
- Description
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Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet: the text comments on excerpts from tablet 50 of the celestial omen series 'Enuma Anu Enlil' ('When the gods Anu and Enlil . . .'). The text is written in 77 lines of cuneiform inscription.
- Production date
- 7thC BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.33 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.90 centimetres
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Width: 7.93 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
E. Reiner & D. Pingree, ‘Babylonian Planatary Omens 2: Enuma Anu Enlil, Tablets 50-51’ (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 2/2). (Malibu, 1981), 29-34, 40-45.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia'
2008-2009 21 Sept-4 Jan, Boston, MFA, 'Art and Empire'
2007 2 Apr-30 Sept, Alicante, MARQ Museum, 'Art and Empire'
2006 1 Jul-7 Oct, Shanghai Museum, 'Art and Empire'
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Enuma Anu Enlil (Tablet 50)
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- K.4292
