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dc:coverage Calah (Extinct city)
dc:coverage Drehem (Extinct city)
dc:coverage Iraq
dc:creator Kirkor Minassian Collection (Library of Congress)
dc:creator Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division.
dc:date ca. 2144 B.C.-ca. 824 B.C
dc:description A finding aid prepared by Library of Congress employee David Moore is available in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room and provides numbered descriptions of the items in the collection.
dc:description Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1929 from art dealer Kirkor Minassian as part of a collection of Islamic bookbindings, manuscripts, textiles, and ceramic and metal objects illustrating the history of the development of writing and book arts in the Middle East.
dc:description Cuneiform tablets with inscriptions pertaining primarily to receipt of and payment for goods and services. Twelve tablets are identified as school exercise tablets. These were orginally unfired, as they were meant to be erased and reused. Other tablets, and the brick fragments, contain votive or commemorative inscriptions or are records of religious offerings. This last group includes also two votive cone inscriptions, inscribed cone-shaped clay "nails" made to be placed in the walls of a temple.
dc:description Many tablets are inscribed on both front and back, and two are inscribed also on the side. The styles of inscription vary with the content or function. A few bear impressions of figures of deities and royal persons made in relief in the clay by cylinder seals. Some retain clay envelopes or fragments of same.
dc:description Moore, David K. "The Brick of Shalmaneser." The Library of Congress Information Bulletin (Nov. 1999).
dc:description Most items in Sumerian. A few in Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian. Characteristics of the inscriptions suggest the tablets may have come from the town of Drehem in Babylonia (modern Iraq). The inscriptions on the brick fragments identify them as coming from the city of Kalhu (or Calah, the modern city of Nimrud, Iraq).
dc:description Most of the clay tablets are square or rectangular in shape and range in size from 2 x 2 cm. to 18 x 19 cm. A number of the tablets are round, including all of the school exercise tablets in this collection. These are from 7 cm. to 8 1/2 cm. in diameter. The two brick fragments, which may or may not be parts of the same brick, together measure 15 1/2 cm. high x 29 cm. wide. Coloration varies from light to dark.
dc:description The oldest tablets date from the reign of Gudea of Lagash (2144-2124 B.C.). Many others appear to belong to the Ur III period, including some inscribed with dates ranging from 2063 to 2031 B.C. The brick fragments belong to the period of Shalmanassar III (858-824 B.C.) during the New Assyrian Empire.
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dc:language Most items in Sumerian. A few in Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian. Characteristics of the inscriptions suggest the tablets may have come from the town of Drehem in Babylonia (modern Iraq). The inscriptions on the brick fragments identify them as coming from the city of Kalhu (or Calah, the modern city of Nimrud, Iraq).
dc:language sux
dc:subject Akkadian language--Texts.
dc:subject Cuneiform tablets.
dc:subject Gods, Assyro-Babylonian.
dc:subject Gods, Sumerian.
dc:subject Gudea,--of Lagash.
dc:subject Iraq--Antiquities--Specimens.
dc:subject Sumerian language--Texts.
dc:subject Sumerians--Commerce.
dc:subject Sumerians--Economic conditions.
dc:subject Sumerians--Education.
dc:subject Sumerians--Religion.
dc:subject Sumerians--Rites and ceremonies.
dc:title [Cuneiform tablets collection].
dc:type collection
dc:type text
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