RIME 4.03.07.07Sumerian, ex. 02 (P447978)
Official or display barrel excavated in Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Museum Collection(s)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMuseum Number
Ashm 1929-0137Provenience
Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir)Artifact Type
BarrelMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Official or display (witness)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
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- Artifact type: Barrel
- Material: Clay
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- Genre(s): Official or display (witness)
- Language(s): Sumerian
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primary: RIME 4, 03.07.07Sumerian, ex. 02
[Frayne1990RIME4] Frayne, Douglas R. 1990. Old Baylonian Period (2003-1595 BC). Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods 4. University of Toronto Press.
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history: EK 3, pl. 12 left
[Langdon1930EK3] Langdon, Stephen H., and Louis C. Watelin. 1930. Excavations at Kish: The Herbert Weld (for the University of Oxford) and Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Expedition to Mesopotamia Vol. III 1925-1927. Vol. 3. Excavations at Kish. Paris: P. Geuthner. http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/60507.
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citation: Fs Finkelstein (pp. 93-100), 096 (note mis-numbering of exc. no.)
[Gurney1977FsFinkelstein] Gurney, Oliver R. 1977. “Inscribed Cylinders and Cylinder Fragments in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford.” In Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, edited by Maria DeJong Ellis, 19:93–100. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Museum No.: Ashm 1929-0137
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- Provenience: Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir)
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
- Dates Referenced: Samsu-iluna.00.00.00
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2024-10-08 at 10:44:06 | Firth, Richard | Artifact, Other Entity | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2024-08-03 at 16:53:56 | Firth, Richard | Artifact, Other Entity | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2023-06-15 at 20:44:22 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |
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| 2012-12-26 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | CDLI | CDLI | approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P447978) (P447978)
This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):
| Composite | Score |
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| RIME 4.03.07.07Sumerian composite (P519213) | View the score |
Cite this Artifact
@misc{2024RIME,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-11-14]},
year = {2024},
month = {oct 8},
title = {RIME 4.03.07.07Sumerian, ex. 02 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P447978},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P447978},
}
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