Foundation cone of Lipit-Eshtar
Culture: Isin-Larsa
Date: ca. 1936-1926 B.C.
Medium: clay
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
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), 34-35, no. 2.
Not on view
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