Tablet

CBS14251

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS14251
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: red clay, baked tablet. Seal impression. mu en Nimi Unu mas e ni-pad. Contract

PBS XIV: Two shaven and shorn worshipers or temple servants with bare arms and chest and only a shawl girded skirt like about their body, adore with one hand up on either side of a vase with a palm and hanging fruit clusters suggesting vegetation and libation.

“Ush, son of Abu”

The two seal impressions on one clay tablet of the Third Ur Dynasty. Nippur, 1894. See CDLI for transliteration info and line art (hand drawing of inscription).

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number P121196 - CDLI Number | PBS XIV: 276 - Other Number | B14251 - Old Museum Number | CBS 14251 - Other Number

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