tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.8520
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet: containing 4 columns + 3 lines of inscription written in cuneiform. This is a fragment of the standard list of Late Assyrian cuneiform signs, Syllabary A, with fanciful drawings of the pictures which the scribe imag
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Production date: 7thC BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard (et al)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Temple of Nabu (Nineveh), Library
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 13.33 centimetres; Thickness: 3 centimetres; Width: 7.62 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Bibliography: B. Landsberger, ‘Materialien zum sumerischen Lexicon’ vol. III (Rome, 1955), 10; W. Houghton, ‘On the hieroglyphic or picture origin of the characters of the Assyrian syllabary’. ‘Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology’ 6 (London, 1878), 454-83.; May join ND 3411.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1893a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum; Curtis & Reade 1994a / Tesoros de asiria en el Museo Britanico: Arte e Imperio (219); Curtis & Reade 1995a / Art and empire: treasures from Assyria in the British Museum (219); MSL 3 / Vokabulare und Formularbücher Band 3 (p. 10: PC); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P397667) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P397667)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 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 names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.8520
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Apr 1994; Treatment: 23 May 2006

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