Cuneiform tablet

Museum number:

9-1774

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Accession number:

Acc.649

Description:

Fragment of stone tablet cuneiform inscribed triangular; 8 x 13 cm

Donor:

Alfred Kohlberg

Collection place:

Nineveh (ancient city), Iraq

Culture or time period:

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911–612 BC)

Collector:

Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz

Collection date:

before 1930

Materials:

Basalt (basic igneous rock)

Inscription:

surface a column 1' 1'. [...] x x 2'. [...]-usz-szu2-un 3'. [... ina qi2-bit {d}asz-szur u] {d}15 _en-mesz_-ia 4'. [... u2-s,ab]-bit#? ina qa-ti 5'. [... al-qa-asz-szu-nu]-ti# ana _kur_ an-szar2{ki} 6'. [... _kur_]-u2 mar-s,u 7'. [... _en]-nun-mesz ugu_-szu2 8'. [... _a-mesz ti-la zi{tim}_-szu2-nu] ak-la 9'. [... isz]-ku#-nu na-pisz-tu2 10'. [...] x lu [x x] 11'. [...] _kur_ [x x] column 2' 1'. {d#}15# x x [...] 2'. ia-a-ti {disz}{d}[...] 3'. ha-disz nap-lisz [...] 4'. _dingir-mesz_ su!-[up-pi-ia ...] 5'. _ti-la zi#_ [...] 6'. _{gesz}gidri# [...] 7'. a# [...]

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Cuneiform (script) and Tablets (information artifacts)

Production date:

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Accession date:

1930

Context of use:

Genre: royal/monumental Sub-genre: witness

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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