Foundation cone of Lipit-Eshtar
Dimensions:h. 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); w. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Margaret Cullen Marshall
Object number: 95.9.614
Inscribed: Inscribed in Sumerian: "Lipit-Eshtar, humble shepherd of Nippur, true farmer of Ur, unceasing (provider) for Eridu, priest fit for Uruk, king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, I am favorite of the goddess Inanna. When I established justice in Sumer and Akkad, I built the E-ninisa ("House of Justice") in the pre-eminent place of the gods."
[trans. after 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), 35]
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