Tablet
CBS1805B
From: Iraq | Nippur (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
| Object Number | CBS1805B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur (uncertain) |
| Period | Old Babylonian Period |
| Date Made | 1900-1600 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Iconography | Letter | House |
| Inscription Language | Akkadian Language |
| Description | CBS Register: baked clay tablet enclosed in envelope and sealed. I Dyn of Babylon. Letter to Lustamar concerning a claim against a house. PBS XIV: The worshiping of Shamash stepping forth, notched sword in hand, his bare leg lifted on a conical mount. He has the usual horned mitre, hair tied in a loop and plaited shawl open in front. A bearded worshiper brings a kid as an offering. He has a turban and a fringed shawl open in front. There are a crescent and a sun disk above. Ishtar in front face steps forth caduceus and scimitar in hands. Her bare leg is lifted on a small crouching lion which she leads by a cord attached to her right hand. She has a horned mitre, quivers and arrows on her shoulders, straps across her breast and a plaited shawl girded about. Seal impress. on the envelope of a letter from Sin-rimeni to Lushtamar. The seal reads: “Arad Sin//son of Anna-ili//servant of Martu” At the time of Samsuiluna. Pairs with envelope CBS1805A. there is also a B1805b which is a receipt of metal tools? |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; subscription of John Dingley Prince,1889 |
| Other Number | P259124, P259125 - CDLI Number | PBS XIV: 423a - Other Number | B1805B - Old Museum Number | CBS 01805 & CBS 01805a - Other Number |
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