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B14345

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number B14345
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Stone
Technique Incised
Iconography Animals
Description

CBS Register: square grey stone tablet with engraving (part of animals). Bronze mount at the back

-all edges smooth, so a whole object, but the back end of animals, so clearly part of a pair.

PBS XIV: Hind legs of two ibexes. Limestone tessera for mosaic decoration, with a hole at the back to fix a copper wire. Nippur.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900
Other Number PBS XIV: 1070 - Other Number | P269313 - CDLI Number

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