Tablet

CBS7987

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

Object Number CBS7987
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Old Babylonian Period
Date Made 1900-1600 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Description

Letter text. With 3 seal impressions of the same seal only. CBS Register: fragment of an envelope with fine seal impressions. First Dyn.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated goddess with hand extended below the crescent. She has the usual horned mitre, hair tied in a loop, flounced robe, a cubic seat and a footstool. A divine attendant, with the same mitre and hair but a plaited robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the beardless worshiper in a fringed shawl and a low turban. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Gimil-Ishtar//banker”

Seal impress. on a fragment of black clay envelope of tablet. Nippur.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number P262928 - CDLI Number | B7987 - Old Museum Number | CBS 07987 - Other Number | PBS XIV: 257 - Other Number

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