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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