Brick fragment with a cuneiform inscription
General region:Asia
Culture: Babylonian
Period: Old Babylonian period(?)
Date: ca. 1900-1600 B.C.
Medium: Fired clay
Dimensions:
h. 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm); w. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); d. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Margaret Cullen Marshall
Object number: 95.9.530
Provenance: with Margaret Cullen Marshall (1921-1993) and Douglas B. Marshall (1917-2007), Barksdale, TX, by 1993; Douglas B. Marshall, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1995
Published References
J. García Recio, ed., Textos Cuneiformes de Texas. San Antonio Museum of Art. (León and Estella, Spain: Instituto Bíblico y Oriental and Verbo Divino, 2021), 48-49, no. 9.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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