Tablet

CBS16106

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS16106
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Old Akkadian Period
Date Made 2340-2200 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Terracotta
Description

Terracotta "Squeeze". King Nabonidus took an impression or squeeze from a stone original of the King Shar-kali-sharri.Nabonidus then wrote his own account of finding it on the back.

CBS Register: baked clay tablet of shape (sketch). sixth century BC. obverse: impress of inscription of Sargon I. Rev: Label of Neo-bbyl scribe "Nabu-..." (CDLI Composite: Q005261).

Credit Line Gift of John H. Haynes, Babylonian Expedition III, 1896
Other Number P227533 - CDLI Number | B16106 - Old Museum Number | CBS 16106 - Other Number

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