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Description: | Fragment of stone with Assyrian cuneiform inscription and portion of 2 sculpted figures from ancient city of Babylon., The top 10cm of the stone contains 7 lines of cuneiform writing. Underneath there is a horizontal strip outset from the stone. Below that there are 2 figures. On the left there is the head of a man facing left. He has a long beard and head dress. The rest of the body is missing. He possibly has his arm raised, maybe holding an object, but the stone is too damaged to tell. Next to him there is more cuneiform script which is larger than the other writing. There is only one line and approx. 5 symbols. On the far right there is the top of another figure but only the head dress remains, no features. He is possibly holding a staff of some sort, but only the very top of the staff remains. The stone has rounded edges, with a chunk missing from the bottom left. On the front there are 3 holes over the text. The back is not flat, and is thickest at the bottom. On the back there is 1 large hole and 3 very small ones. There are small black smudges on the front; on the outlay and the text. The large writing could possibly be the name of a god and the figures also gods, as per the similar object at the British Museum. Like the British Museum object, it could be part of a relief. Ceramic label found in 2006 under the north stairs at Nottingham Castle appears to accompany it (in History File). Reads: 'From Babylon. Presented by James Emerson Tennent, Esq. MP for Belfast to Arthur 3rd Viscount Dungannon AD 1839'. In black ink on reverse it reads: '1887 presented by Samuel Maples to Castle Museum'., "Presented by James Emerson Tennent, Esq. M.P. for Belfast To Arthur 3rd Viscount Dungannon. A.D. 1839." [Label found under North Hall Stairs 2002, now in Registry] Thence, somehow, to Samuel Maples who donated it to the Castle Museum in 1887.
Accession number: NCM 1887-26 | Subjects: | reading and writing BABYLONIAN | Temporal: | 900-750BC? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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