| Object Number |
CBS4561 |
| Current Location |
On Loan |
| Culture |
Sumerian |
| Provenience |
Iraq | Nippur |
| Period |
Old Babylonian Period |
| Date Made |
1900-1600 BCE |
| Section |
Babylonian |
| Materials |
Clay |
| Technique |
Baked |
| Inscription Language |
Sumerian Language |
| Description |
Baked, light brown clay. Large: three columns:made from 3 fragments. Sumerian Myth of Enki and Ninhursag. (ETCSL 1.01.01, CDLI Composite: Q000332). Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B4561. |
| Height |
18.75 cm |
| Width |
12.75 cm |
| Depth |
2 cm |
| Credit Line |
Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
| Other Number |
P260875 - CDLI Number | B4561 - Old Museum Number | CBS 04561 - Other Number | 416 - Cast Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Tinney, Stephen J. Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. See: Page 86, Figure 4S2.1 |
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| Legrain, Leon. "The Babylonian Collection of the University Museum." The University Museum Bulletin 10, no. 3-4. (1944): 1-75. Page/Fig./Plate: 18 |
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| Aruz, Joan. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Page/Fig./Plate: 474 |
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| Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. "Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: Archival View of P260875." https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P260875 |
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| Langdon, Stephen H. "A NEW SUMERIAN DOCUMENT." The Museum Journal V, no. 3. (1914): 141-144. See: p. 143, fig 72 |
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