Cuneiform tablet

Museum number:
9-1789
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Accession number:
Acc.649
Description:
Cuneiform tablet, fragment; 12 x 8 cm; 3.5 cm thick. A clay tablet with a fragmentary astrological text forecasting the dire consequences of a solar eclipse. Circa 900–600 BC.
Donor:
Alfred Kohlberg
Collection place:
Mesopotamia
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) and Tablets (information artifacts)
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Production date:
900-600 BC
Accession date:
1930
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1967-1968 #50: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)/Anne D. Kilmer (October 30, 1967–October 30, 1967) and S1980-1981 #1: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley) (July 3, 1980–July 9, 1980)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cuneiform tablet, accession number 9-1789, described as Cuneiform tablet, fragment; 12 x 8 cm; 3.5 cm thick. A clay tablet with a fragmentary astrological text forecasting the dire consequences of a solar eclipse. Circa 900–600 BC.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cuneiform tablet, accession number 9-1789, described as Cuneiform tablet, fragment; 12 x 8 cm; 3.5 cm thick. A clay tablet with a fragmentary astrological text forecasting the dire consequences of a solar eclipse. Circa 900–600 BC.

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