Tablet

CBS7847

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS7847
Current Location Middle East Galleries - On Display
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Old Babylonian Period
Date Made 1900-1600 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Inscription Language Sumerian Language
Description

Nearly complete, large, two columns, mole borwn. Hymn to Ishtar. Landgon PBX X-3

Literary text. Inanna B ('Decad no. 04'). (ETCSL 4.07.02, CDLI Composite: Q000623). Ninmesharra; the exaltation of Inanna; (Obverse)(i)44x(ii)46x(Reverse)(iii)44x(iv)29x(UE)2 lines. See CDLI for line art (hand drawing of inscription). Joins with 29-15-422.

Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B7847.

Length 20.5 cm
Width 13.5 cm
Depth 3.5 cm
Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number P262837 - CDLI Number | B7847 - Old Museum Number | CBS 07847 + UM 29-15-422 - Other Number | 29-15-422 - Associated Object Number

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