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Cuneiform Tablet

1913.14.0117

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Artifact Identification Cuneiform Tablet   (1913.14.0117)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Documentary Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Other Documents
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period First Dynasty Babylon
Date 1895–1712 BCE
Culture Babylonian, Noanama
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 3.6 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 3.0 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 1.6 cm
Weight 21 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Ceramic--Earthenware
Manufacturing Processes Inscribing, Handbuilding, Firing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
CDLI NumberP420498 (external link)
Bibliography

"[Book review of E. Porada and B. Buchanan, Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in N. American Collec., vol. 1: The Collec. of the Pierpont Morgan Lib.] ," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4 (1950) 155-162.

Goetze, Albrecht. "Sin-iddinam of Larsa: New Tablets from His Reign," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4 (1950) 83-118. This article publishes thirteen Old Babylonian texts from the WHM collection in hand-copy and mentions fifteen more.

______. "An Old Babylonian Itinerary," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 7 (1953) 51-72.

_____. "Remarks on the Old Babylonian Itinerary," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 18/4 (1964), pp. 114-119.

Hallo, William W. "The Road to Emar," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 18/3 (1964). pp. 57-88.

Cuneiform Documents from the Chaldean and Persian Periods by Ronald H. Sack, 1994

Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC), by Grant Frame, 1995

The Daily Illini. "UI receives new translation grant." March 24, 1972. 1972P.0026

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Edgar J. Banks Collection
Reproduction no

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