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Object Number:CBS16217
Current Location: Middle East Galleries
Currently On Display
Provenience: Iraq
Ur
Period: Ur III
Date Made: 2100 - 2000 BCE
Early Date: -2100
Late Date: -2000
Section:Babylonian
Materials:Diorite
Technique:Inscribed
Inscription Language:Sumerian Language
Height: 4.5 cm
Width: 2 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Credit Line:British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1926
Other Number:U.6300 - Field No SF
P227099 - CDLI Number
B16217 - Old Museum Number
IM 001376b & CBS 16217 - Other Number

Description

CBS Register: diorite tablet found with the copper statue (B16216) Dimlabba, nin-a-ni, Shulgi... eani, munadu.

(CDLI Composite: Q000961). See CDLI for transliteration info. Joins with IM 001376b from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq.

Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B16217.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Tokens to Tablets: Glimpses into 6000 Years of the History of the Ancient Near East (14 Nov 1987 - Aug 2006) View Objects in Exhibition
Middle East Galleries (21 Apr 2018) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Woolley, Charles L. Ur Excavations: The building of the Third Dynasty.. Published for the Trustees of the Two Museums by the Oxford University Press. Vol. VI. Actual CitationView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] 2013. Quest for Treasures: Searching for Lost Empires.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 283View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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