Cuneiform Peg
Unidentified Babylonian maker
Uruk
Mesopotamia
2300 BCE
Terracotta
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of The Dartmouth Scientific Association
23.1.7205
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
3000-2000 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, / the provider of E2-an-na, / his (own) palace"; incised, reverse, in cuneiform [translation]: "of royalty, / he built."
Course History
REL 81, Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion, Susannah Heschel, Fall 2012
ANTH 12.2, The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Jason Herrmann, Spring 2013
ANTH 12.2, Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Daniel Potts, Spring 2014
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. A.
Provenance
Dartmouth Scientific Association; given to present collection, 1923.
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