Tablet

CBS14193

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS14193
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Ur III
Date Made 2100-2000 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Inscription Language Sumerian Language
Description

PBS XIV: The worshiping of a seated bearded god, hand extended holding a small cup (?). He has a turban, a fringed shawl, a seat covered with flounced material and resting on a dais. A divine assistant, with horned mitre, hair tied in a loop, a flounced robe covering one shoulder, leads by the hand the shaven and shorn worshiper in a fringed shawl. Both adore with their free hand up.

“Shulgii//might hero//king of Ur//Lishalum//son of Shunili//patesi of//Marad//is thy servant”

Marad is the actual Wannet es Sa’dun.

Seal impress. on the clay envelope of a contract tablet. 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 P125410 - CDLI Number | PBS XIV: 286 - Other Number | B14193 - Old Museum Number | CBS 14193 - Other Number

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