Tablet, Envelope - CBS4711 | Collections

Object Number:	CBS4711
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Akkadian
Provenience:	Iraq Nippur
Period:	Old Babylonian Period
Date Made:	1900-1600 BCE
Early Date:	-1900
Late Date:	-1600
Section:	Babylonian
Materials:	Clay
Iconography:	Letter
Length:	6.8 cm
Width:	4.2 cm
Thickness:	1.5 cm
Credit Line:	Babylonian Expedition Fund Purchase, 1888-1891
Other Number:	P260980 - CDLI Number B4711 - Old Museum Number CBS 04711 - Other Number PBS XIV: 324a - Other Number

Description

An Akkadian letter from a man named Ibi-ilum to Shu-ili.

PBS XIV: Two Gilgamesh in front face attack two rampant human beaded bisons. Streams of blood flow around the left bison. Two lions attack a rampant ibex. There is a squat monkey between them.

Seal impress. on the envelope of a letter of Ibi-ilum to Gimil-ili before the time of Hammurabi.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands (26 Sep 2010 - 26 Jul 2011)

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Bibliography:

[Book] Legrain, Leon. 1925. The Culture of the Babylonians.. The University Museum, Publications of the Babylonian Section. Vol. XIV. Actual Citation	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 141	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Ousterhout, Robert G., and Holod, Renata. 2011. Osman Hamdi Bey & the Americans / Osman Hamdi Bey ve Amerikalilar.. Istanbul. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 377	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Web Site] Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: Archival View of P260980.. Actual Citation	View Objects related to this Actual Citation