CDLI Tablet
Cuneiform building plans: 3
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-30
The two Ashmolean Museum fragments Ashm 1911-238 & 239 appear to be part of a larger tablet, describing a substantial building measuring some 20×25 m.
Cuneiform building plans: 2
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-29
The preserved upper left corner of a plan for a large building from the 21st century BC, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (Ashm 1911-238). The image includes shots of the artifact’s edges; since tablets were symmetrical, we estimated we are looking at a quarter of the full text.
Cuneiform building plans: 1
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-28
A building plan from the 21st century BC with measurements based on 3 cubit-thick outer walls and central room niche walls, otherwise 2 cubit-thick inner walls; tablet in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, UK.
Bricks: 14
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-27
A modern brick with a stamped inscription of Saddam Hussein, in situ in Babylon.
Bricks: 13
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-26
An Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) brick with an inscription of the king, in situ in Ur.
Bricks: 8
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-21
An Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) brick with an inscription of the king.
Bricks: 7
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-20
An Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) brick stamp with an inscription of dynasty’s third king.
Bricks: 6
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-06-19
An Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) brick stamp with an inscription of the dynasty’s third king.
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