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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.891
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Clay tablet, 33 lines of inscription, one corner is slightly mutilated, inscription of Ashurbanipal, relating to offerings, etc., 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: 9 centimetres (complete); Thickness: 2 centimetres (complete); Width: 5.10 centimetres (complete)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For the translation and interpretation of the text, see Oppert, J., 1863. ‘Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert’ vol. I. Paris : Imprimerie impériale, p. 282; and Zimmern, F., 1885. ‘Babylonische Busspsalmen, umschrieben, übers und erklärt’. Leipzig : J. C. Hinrichs, p. 2. Cf. also Bezold, Bezold, C. 1886. ‘Kurzgefasster Überblick über die babylonisch-assyrische literatur’. Leipzig : O. Schulze, p. 7, § 4, note 2 ; Delitzsch, F., 2. vols, 1887-1888. ‘Assyrisches Wörterbuch zur gesamten bisher veröffentlichten Keilschriftliteratur unter Berücksichtigung zahlreicher unveröffentlichter Texte’. Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, pp. 182, 218, 236, 267, 319 ;* and Lehmann, C.F., 1881. ‘Šamaššumukîn, König von Babylonien 668-648 v. Chr. Inschriftliches Material über den Beginn seiner‘.Leipzig : J. C. Hinrich, p. 27, sub No. 12, etc.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.187); Rawlinson H C & Norris E 1861a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, I: a selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia (8, No. 2); Pinches 1882 / Texts in the Babylonian Wedge-Writing autographed from the original Documents (pp.17 f); Lehmann 1881 / Samas̆s̆umukîn, König von Babylonien 668-648 v. Chr. Inschriftliches Material über den Beginn seiner Regierung (pll.xxxii f); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P237924) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P237924)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.891

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