RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006 (P258965)

Official or display brick excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 01632a

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Brick

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Official or display (witness)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Artifact type: Brick
Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Official or display (witness)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006

[Novotny2023RINAP5/3] Novotny, Jamie, Joshua Jeffers, and Grant Frame. 2023. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-Etel-Ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-Šarra-Iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3. Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, vol. 5/3. Eisenbrauns.
history: JCS 37 (pp. 229-248), 239, 53a

[Behrens1985JCS37] Behrens, Hermann. 1985. “Die Backsteine Mit Keilinschriften Im University Museum.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 37 (2): 229–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1359869.
history: RIMB 2, .06.32.16, ex. 006

[Frame1995RIMB2] Frame, Grant. 1995. Rulers of Babylonia From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination. The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Babylonian Periods, vol. 2. University of Toronto Press.

Identifiers

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Museum No.: CBS 01632a
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Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Chronology

Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Dates Referenced: Assurbanipal.00.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-14 at 13:41:50	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-13 at 15:04:34	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-07 at 17:55:43	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-01 at 18:45:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-01-09 at 12:39:25	Novotny, Jamie	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie		Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-06-15 at 19:55:18	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-19 at 10:20:17	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (65762) (65762)
Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.1632.A) (CBS.1632.A)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P258965) (P258965)

Composites

This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite	Score
RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259 composite (P469111)	View the score

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Cite this Artifacts

“RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, Ex. 006 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 14, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P258965.

RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006 artifact entry (No. P258965). (2024, October 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P258965 (Original work published 2005)

RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P258965 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, Ex. 006 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 14, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P258965.

RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006 artifact entry (No. P258965). (2024, October 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P258965 (Original work published 2005)

RINAP 5/3, Ashurbanipal 259, ex. 006 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P258965 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

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