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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.5464
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Fragment of a clay tablet, letter from Sennacherib to his father Sargon II concerning the troubles on the North frontier, 34 + 27 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:
12.06 centimetres
Width:
5.08 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1891a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
Parpola, SAA 1 / The correspondence of Sargon II, part I: Letters from Assyria and the West
(no. 29)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P334143)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P334143)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 1995 9 Sep-31 Dec, Finland, Vantaa, Heureka, Nineveh 612 BC
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.5464
Joined objects
Joined Tablet Group:
G11107
(3 objects)
Conservation
Treatment
: 1 Jan 22