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tablet
Object Type
tablet
Museum number
K.326
Title
Series:
Library of Ashurbanipal
Description
Clay tablet, right hand bottom corner of obverse and the corresponding part of reverse are wanting, and from reverse some pieces are broken out, on obverse, between lines 6 and 7, five nail-impressions, private contract, dated April-May, 748 (?) B.C., Neo-Assyrian.
Authority
Eponym:
Sin-shallimanni
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Production date
748BC
(? April-May)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
(et al)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Kouyunjik
Materials
clay
Technique
impressed
Dimensions
Length:
8.40 centimetres
(complete)
Thickness:
2.60 centimetres
(complete)
Width:
5.40 centimetres
(complete)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
legal
Curator's comments
Cf. also Smith, G., 1878. 'The Assyrian Eponym Canon'. London: S. Bagster and Sons, p. 83; and Strassmaier, J. N. 1882-1886. ‘Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der assyrischen und akkadischen Wörter: der Cuneiform inscriptions of western Asia, vol. II ; sowie anderer meist unveröffentlichter Inschriften / von J.N. Strassmaier ; Mit zahlreichen engänzungen und verbesserungen und einem Wörterverzeichniss zu den in den Verhandlungen’. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, pp. 596, 812, 820, 920, 965.
Bibliographic references
Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum
(p.84)
Rawlinson H C & Smith G 1870a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, III
(48, no.1)
Oppert J & Menant J 1877a / Documents juridiques de l'Assyrie et de la Chaldée
(p.150 ff)
Kwasman & Parpola, SAA 6 / Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath Pilesar III through Esarhaddon
(no. 17)
CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(P335355)
(http://cdli.ucla.edu/P335355)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
Ashurbanipal
Department
Middle East
Registration number
K.326