"Medical Tablet"
CBS14221
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
| Object Title | "Medical Tablet" |
| Object Number | CBS14221 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Period | Early Dynastic IIIB |
| Date Made | 2500-2340 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Iconography | Medicine |
| Inscription Language | Sumerian Language |
| Description | CBS Register: 3 col. tablet. obv damaged. rev in fine condition. Pre-Sargon. Ritual. [Ritual is then crossed out and Medical text/Old Akk/Ur III is added in by Ake.] Scientific text. Medical. prescriptions. (cast: Ashm 1994-0054). Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B14221. |
| Height | 15.4 cm |
| Width | 9.3 cm |
| Thickness | 2.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
| Other Number | P269190 - CDLI Number | 417 - Cast Number | B14221 - Old Museum Number | CBS 14221 (cast: Ashm 1994-0054) - Other Number |
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