Barrel-shaped clay cylinder bearing a cuneiform inscription; a prayer from Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. Length: 13 cm; diameter: 4 cm. Hollow. 597 BC.
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Mesopotamia
Verbatim coll. place:
not specified
Culture or time period:
Neo-Babylonian (636–539 BC)
Collector:
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz
Collection date:
before 1930
Materials:
Clay
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cuneiform (script)
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Production date:
597 BC
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 4 centimeters and length 13 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #50: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)/Anne D. Kilmer (October 30, 1967–October 30, 1967), S1971-1972 #48: Rare Book Collection (UC Berkeley) (November 4, 1971–November 7, 1971), S1972-1973 #25: Rare Book Collection (UC Berkeley) (October 26, 1972–November 6, 1972), S1973-1974 #50: Rare Book Collection (UC Berkeley) (January 29, 1974–February 1, 1974), and S1973-1974 #77: School of Librarianship (UC Berkeley) (April 8, 1974–June 4, 1974)