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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
35603
Description
Clay cuneiform tablet. The Hellenistic King List..
Cultures/periods
Late Babylonian
Production date
2ndC BC
Production place
Made in:
Iraq, South
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Babylon (Iraq)
Materials
clay
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
Purchased from:
Spartali & Co
Acquisition date
1880
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
35603
Registration number
Sp-III.113
Conservation
Treatment
: 30 Jun 1954
Treatment
: 01 Feb 2006