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Barrel Cylinder

Object Number:CBS9
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Iraq
Period: Neo-Babylonian Period
Date Made: 626-539 BCE
Early Date: -626
Late Date: -539
Section:Babylonian
Materials:Clay
Inscription Language:Akkadian Language
Persian Language
Height: 25.7 cm
Outside Diameter:17.4 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Joseph Shemtob, London; subscription of E. W. Clark, et. al., 1888
Other Number:P257574 - CDLI Number
B9 - Old Museum Number
CBS 00009 - Other Number
JS 1 - Dealer's Number

Description

barrel cylinder, Akk, royal inscription, NB, historical

CBS Register: large barrel cylinder in baked clay. Nebuchadnezzar II.

Bibliography:

[Article] Legrain, Leon. 1944. "The Babylonian Collection of the University Museum". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 10. no. 3-4. pg. 1-75 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 63View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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