Cuneiform Cylinder of Sargon II (721-705 B.C.E.)
Unidentified Assyrian maker
Mesopotamia
721-705 BCE
Terracotta
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Milton S. Yondorf, Class of 1944P
42.2.7704
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
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 7, Thinking About Empire, Alan Covey, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.2, Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Daniel Potts, Spring 2014
Provenance
Milton S. Yondorf, Chicago, Illinois; given to present collection, 1942.
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