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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.8579
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Fragment of a clay tablet, 13 lines of inscription. Neo-Assyrian. Fragment of the upper portion. Fragment of a mythological legend apparently belonging to a tablet of the series Sha naqbi imuru. Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 10.
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
(et al)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Kouyunjik
Materials
clay
Dimensions
Length:
5.71 centimetres
Width:
4.12 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
George 2003a / The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: introduction, critical edition and cuneiform texts
(plates 109 and 111)
(copy)
Bezold 1893a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P397685)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P397685)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.8579