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Object Number:B2715.1
Current Location: Middle East Galleries
Currently On Display
Provenience: Iraq
Nippur
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Terracotta
Credit Line:Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I,1889

Description

47 loose wall cones in a speciality mount for display

CBS Register (for the entirety of B2715): 100 of mostly fragm. terracotta cones, found at NE Corner of ziggurat at foot of Asurbanapal's counstruction, evidentally fall from highest slope, where they were used in connection with shrine as building material.

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