Tablet

CBS6141B

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS6141B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Ur III
Date Made 2100-2000 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Inscription Language Sumerian Language
Description

CBS Register: Complete case tablet. Envelope and seals. Ur: Ibi Sin. 1st year. 1 1/8 mana kaspi Subali.

Pairs with envelope CBS6141A.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated bearded god holding a small cup below the crescent and the sun disk with cross and rays. He has a turban, a fringed shawl, a seat covered with flounced material, and resting on a dais. He wears necklace and bracelet, and is probably a figure of Gimil-Sin of the Third Ur Dynasty. A divine attendant, with horned mitre, hair tied in a loop, a plaited robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper I a fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Gimil-Sin light of his land//servant of Guzana”

Gimil-Sinnurmatishu, the name of seal’s owner, is an invocation of the deified king of Ur.

Seal impress. on a clay tablet - a receipt - dated on the first year of Gimil-Sin. Nippur.

Administrative text. See CDLI for transliteration info and line art (hand drawing of inscription).

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number P120698 - CDLI Number | B6141 - Old Museum Number | CBS 06141B - Other Number | PBS XIV: 287 - Other Number

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