tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.62
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of clay tablet, the so-called Assyrian "Syllabary S{a}", arranged according to a special order of cuneiform signs, 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: 10.79 centimetres; Thickness: 3.17 centimetres; Width: 7.62 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Attached to K.2865 and Sm.15. For Assyrian "Syllabary S{a}", see Peiser, 1886. 'Zeitschrift für Assyriologie', p.95 ff.; 1887, p.316 ff.). On a duplicate to part of Columns IV and V, see K.4118. Cf. also Hincks, E., 1852. 'On the Assyro-Babylonian phonetic characters', Dublin, pp. 335, note; 342, note; and Oppert, J., 1859. ‘Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert’ vol. II. Paris : Imprimerie impériale, pp. 53, 145, 232, 316.|
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.16); Rawlinson H C & Norris E 1866a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, II (3); Fox Talbot 1874 (p.504 ff.); Delitzsch 1885 / Assyrische Lesestücke: nach den originalen Theils revidirt Theils zum ersten Male / herausgegeben (p. 42 ff.); MSL 3 / Vokabulare und Formularbücher Band 3 (p. 7: A); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P365215) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P365215)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.62
Joined objects: Joined Tablet Group: G10938 (4 objects)
Conservation: Treatment: 9/2018

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