Cuneiform Tablet

Unidentified Babylonian maker
Uruk
Mesopotamia

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1800 BCE

Terracotta

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of The Dartmouth Scientific Association

23.1.7195

Geography

Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia

Period

2000-1000 BCE

Object Name

Written Communication

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Inscriptions

Incised, obverse, in cuneiform [translation]: "dSuen-ka3-ši-id, / the mighty man, / the king of Uruk, / the king of Am-na-nu-um, / his (own) palace"; incised, reverse, in cuneiform [translation]: "of royalty, / he built."

Course History

ANTH 12.2, The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Jason Herrmann, Spring 2013

Exhibition History

From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 19, 2006-June 17, 2007.

Publication History

Magnus Widell, From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006, A Selection of Cuneiform Tablets from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2006, Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, no. B.

Provenance

Dartmouth Scientific Association; given to present collection, 1923.

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