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Brick

Object Number:B8623
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Iraq
Baghdad
Period: Neo-Babylonian Period
Date Made: 626-539 BCE
Early Date: -626
Late Date: -539
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Clay
Technique:Inscribed
Inscription Language:Akkadian Language
Credit Line:Babylonian Expedition, Hermann V. Hilprecht, 1899
Other Number:A5 no. 74 (Part 1-3) - Other Number
P263422 - CDLI Number

Description

Complete (3 pieces), cut for inscription. Hand inscribed.

CBS Register: Baghdad, Segment of brick, 3 lines of Old Babylonian Inscription, Nebuchadnezzar. from Neb's embankments on the W side of the Tigris, opposite Baghdad. Jan. 1889.

Behrens: Nebukadnezar II 40 (Walker Brick Inscriptions Nr. 101)

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