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Description: | [1] red coloured stone with cuneiform inscription on 2 sides
[2] text only from brick of Nebuchadnezzar, cuneiform inscription
[3] complete brick of Nebuchadnezzar, cuneiform inscription in centre, [1] Faded cuneiform writing on the front. Large cuneiform writing on the top. Museum sticker on the back. Broken on the back. Smooth top/front/bottom/left sides. Black on front. Possible brick?
[2] 7 rows on cuneiform writing in the middle. Text from brick of Nebuchadnezzar. Broken around the outside. 5 holes over the text on the front. Museum sticker on the back. Back not smooth with cracks. Slight damage to text in top right corner. Exactly the same text as [3]. Texts says(?) 'Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who cares for Esagila and Ezida, eldest son of Nabopollassar, king of Babylon'. Esagila - temple dedicated to Marduk, protector god of Babylon. Ezida - temple of Nabu, god of scribes. Text found from brick on British Museum website (see references)
[3] Complete brick of Nebuchadnezzar. Cuneiform writing in centre, 7 lines of text (see [2] above for possible translation). Crack on top left corner and chip on bottom right corner. Mud on back/bottom/top. Museum sticker on top. Reign of Nebuchadnezzar: 604-562BC. He rebuilt Babylon on a grand scale and used 15 million baked bricks on the construction of the official buildings.,
Accession number: HHL 21 | Subjects: | reading and writing Babylonian | Temporal: | 600BC? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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