tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 35603
Description: Clay cuneiform tablet. The Hellenistic King List..
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2ndC BC
Production place: Made in: Iraq, South
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Babylon (Iraq)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 8.50 centimetres; Length: 2.75 inches; Weight: 167 grammes; Thickness: 2.20 centimetres; Width: 7 centimetres; Width: 3.25 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Sachs and Wiseman, Iraq 16, 202-241; Grayson, RlA 7, 98-100
Bibliographic references: Sachs A J & Wiseman 1954a / A Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period; Pritchard 1950a / Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (pp.566-67); Pinder-Wilson 1971a / Royal Persia: a commemoration of Cyrus the Great and his successors on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire (no.65); Curtis 2000b / Mesopotamia and Iran in the Parthian and Sasanian Periods: Rejection and Revival c. 238 BC - AD 642 (Proceedings of a Seminar in memory of Vladimir G. Lukonin) (p.14) (reference to)
Location: On display (G52/dc6)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2008 26 Jun-5 Oct, Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum-Pergamonmuseum, 'Babylon, Myth and Truth' 2008 14 Mar-2 Jun, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 'Babylon' 2006 13 Apr-Dec, BM, G2 1995-2005 17 Niov-15 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/25, from official opening 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN/25 1971 BM, 'Royal Persia: a commemoration of Cyrus the Great and his successors on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire' Room of Writing/1
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 35603
Registration number: Sp-III.113
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Jun 1954; Treatment: 01 Feb 2006

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