"Medical Tablet"
CBS14221
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
Object Title | "Medical Tablet" |
Object Number | CBS14221 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Early Dynastic IIIB |
Date Made | ca. 2200 BCE |
Section | Babylonian |
Materials | Clay |
Iconography | Medicine |
Inscription Language | Sumerian Language |
Description | CBS Register: 3 col. tablet. obv damaged. rev in fine condition. Pre-Sargon. Ritual. [Ritual is then crossed out and Medical text/Old Akk/Ur III is added in by Ake.] Scientific text. Medical. prescriptions. (cast: Ashm 1994-0054). Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B14221. |
Height | 15.4 cm |
Width | 9.3 cm |
Thickness | 2.8 cm |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
Other Number | P269190 - CDLI Number | 417 - Cast Number | B14221 - Old Museum Number | CBS 14221 (cast: Ashm 1994-0054) - Other Number |
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