Brick
| Object Number: | B10278 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Iraq Babylon |
| Period: | Neo-Babylonian |
| Date Made: | 605-562 BCE |
| Early Date: | 605 |
| Late Date: | 562 |
| Section: | Near Eastern |
| Materials: | Clay |
| Technique: | Stamped |
| Inscription Language: | Akkadian Language |
| Height: | 8.5 cm |
| Length: | 33 cm |
| Width: | 33 cm |
| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase; subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number: | PBS XIV: 1095 - Other Number D8 no. 273 - Other Number P265513 - CDLI Number |
Description
Complete. Stamp inscribed twice on obverse.
CBS Register: Babylon? Baked brick, 3 lines of Old Baby and 1 "Aramanean" stamp. Nebuchadnezzar
Behrens: Nebukadnezar II 40 (Walker Brick Inscriptions Nr. 101)
PBS XIV: Aramaic stamp on a brick of Nebuchadnezar II, BC 604-541, with a Babylonian name in Aramaic letters.
“nabu-nar”
and a cuneiform inscription in three lines in the usual form “Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, restore of Esagila and Ezida, eldest son of Nabopolassar king of Babylon…”
Brick from Babylon.
Bibliography:
| [Book] Legrain, Leon. 1925. The Culture of the Babylonians.. The University Museum, Publications of the Babylonian Section. Vol. XIV. Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] 1897. "Collections and Publications". Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 1. no. No. 1. pg. 16-42 General Reference : Page/Fig./Plate: page 34 | View Objects related to this General Reference |
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