CDLI Tablet

Stone and elites: 5

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-07

A stele, or stela is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide erected as a monument, often for funerary or commemorative purposes.

Stone and elites: 4

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-06

The present form of the artifact is a reconstruction, presenting a best guess of its original appearance. It has been interpreted as a hollow wooden box. Inlaid mosaic panels cover each long side of the Standard. Each presents a series of scenes displayed in three registers, upper, middle and bottom.

Stone and elites: 3

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-05

Approximately twenty-seven statues of Gudea, a ruler (ensi) of the state of Lagash have been found in southern Mesopotamia. Gudea ruled between ca. 2144 - 2124 BC and the statues demonstrate a very sophisticated level of craftsmanship for the time.

Stone and elites: 2

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-04

The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares, refers to an ancient game represented by two game boards (this one is BM 120834) found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s.

Stone and elites: 1

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-03

A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.

Varia: Babylonian Royal Inscription

Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2023-05-02

Black diorite tablet from around 875 - 850 BC discovered in the ancient city of Babylon, modern day southern Iraq. The Image on the front shows a priest with his hand raised in front of the king. The inscriptions on the tablet indicates that it was an royal tablet recording the actions of a king who was restoring a priest's land by his request.

National Museums Scotland: 17

Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2023-05-01

Old Babylonian receipt of loan of barley; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; NMS A.1911.203.28.

National Museums Scotland: 16

Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2023-04-30

Neo-Babylonian record about a legal case; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; NMS A.1909.405.22.

National Museums Scotland: 15

Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2023-04-29

Achaemenid legal text about a field; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; NMS A.1909.405.23.

National Museums Scotland: 14

Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2023-04-28

Clay barrel-cylinder with royal inscription by the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, NMS A.1909.482; John Rylands Library, Manchester, JRL 1095.