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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.597
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Clay tablet, the right hand top corner of obverse, together with the corresponding part of reverse, and the beginning of reverse are broken off; at the end of obverse only remains of lines are left, a letter on military affairs, mentions the land of Elam, Late Babylonian.
Cultures/periods
Late Babylonian
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
(et al)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Kouyunjik
Materials
clay
Dimensions
Length:
7.20 centimetres
(complete)
Thickness:
2 centimetres
(complete)
Width:
4 centimetres
(complete)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
(p.136)
Dietrich, SAA 17 / The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib
(no. 53)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P237834)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P237834)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Associated places
Named in inscription:
Elam
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.597