Cuneiform Brick
Unidentified reign of Shalmaneser III maker, Assyrian, 858 - 824 BCE
Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Mesopotamia
883-859 BCE
Terracotta
Overall: 14 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (36.8 × 36.8 × 12.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson through Reverend Austin Hazen Wright, Class of 1830
57.1.14410
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
Inscriptions
The translation is as follows: 1. Shalmaneser, great king, 2. powerful king, king of the world, king of Assyria 3. son of Ashur-nasir-pal, great king,4. powerful king, king of the world, king of Assyria, 5. son (in turn) of Tukulti-Ninurta, king of the world, king of Assyria 6. The structure of the ziggurat 7. of Kalhu
Course History
ANTH 12.2, The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Jason Herrmann, Spring 2013
Provenance
Collected by Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895), British Consul-General at Baghdad, about 1853; acquired by Reverend Austin Hazen Wright (1811-1865), Class of 1830), Medical missionary stationed in Oroomiah, Persia, acquired for Dartmouth College at the requested of Professor Oliver Payson Hubbard, Class of 1873h (1809-1900), Chemistry Professor and College Librarian; given to present collection, 1856.
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