Stela Fragment
CBS16682
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
| Object Number | CBS16682 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | temenos wall of the K.P. UE IV: Found in the Gig-par-ku, in the upper filling of a chamber on the SW side |
| Period | Early Dynastic IIIB |
| Date Made | 2500-2340 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Limestone |
| Inscription Language | Sumerian Language |
| Description | CBS Register: fragment of blue grey limestone. Stela or Plaque. Pre-Sargonic. Three male, three female figures. Inscription. UE IV: Votive stela, blue-grey limestone, fragment of. In part of an upper register 3 male figures wearing the kaunakes and facing left, the heads destroyed; in a lower register remains of 2 female figures facing left, preserved to the breast only and much damaged; by them traces of an inscription in archaic linear script of the Ur-Nina type. Early work with plentiful use of the drill. The inscription reads "He made it surpass the ..., he made it surpass the house of his father." (CDLI Composite: Q001355). |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1926 |
| Other Number | U.6691 - Field No SF | P222863 - CDLI Number | B16682 - Old Museum Number | CBS 16682 - Other Number |
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