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Object Number:CBS8751
Current Location: Middle East Galleries
Currently On Display
Culture:Babylonian
Provenience: Iraq
Nippur
Period: Old Akkadian Period
Date Made: 2340-2200 BCE
Early Date: -2340
Late Date: -2200
Section:Babylonian
Materials:Diorite
Height: 75 cm
Width: 41.5 cm
Thickness: 17.5 cm
Credit Line:Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number:P216194 - CDLI Number
B8751 - Old Museum Number
CBS 08751 - Other Number

Description

CBS Register: door socket in diorite. Sargon I.

Sharkalisharri. Royal/Monumental text. (CDLI Composite: Q000861). Dos bases de puerta, 1 media luna y una tablilla, todas con la misma inscripción. See CDLI for transliteration info and line art (hand drawing of inscription).

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:

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[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: 15View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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