Cylinder
CBS8383
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
Object Number | CBS8383 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Early Dynastic IIIB |
Date Made | 2500-2340 BCE |
Section | Babylonian |
Materials | Clay |
Inscription Language | Sumerian Language |
Description | CBS Register: Archaique cylinder. 21 columns. Damaged, nearly complete. Pre-Sargonic. Historical with a large amount of religious ceremony and references. Administrative text. See CDLI for transliteration info and line art (hand drawing of inscription). |
Height | 16.1 cm |
Width | 12.7 cm |
Thickness | 12.7 cm |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
Other Number | P222183 - CDLI Number | B8383 - Old Museum Number | CBS 08383 - Other Number |
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