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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