Foundation Cone of Sin-kashid
General region:Asia
Date: ca. 1865/60-1833 B.C.
Dimensions:h. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); w. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the family in memory of Minna Edwards Cook
Object number: 89.5.9
Inscribed: Inscribed in Sumerian:
Sin-kashid, mighty man, king of Uruk, king of the Amnanum, provider of Eanna, when he built Eanna, he built his royal palace.
Trans. after Frayne 1990, 450; García Recio 2021
Provenance: with Minna Edwards Cook (1901-1988), San Antonio, by 1988; gift of her estate to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1989