tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.953
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Clay tablet, part of 15 lines of inscription, on obverse the left halves of the lines are mutilated almost throughout, part of a text containing astrological forecasts, taken from observations of the moon, there is a colophon, which is separated from the foregoing text by a division-line and some space, (reverse, lines 4 f.), 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: 9.60 centimetres (complete); Thickness: 1.90 centimetres (complete); Width: 5 centimetres (complete)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.198); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P393848) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P393848)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.953

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