====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 81-90====
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[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=CircularAstrolabes|81. Babylonian Map of the World]]

The Babylonian Map of the World (Mapa Mundi), dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, is the oldest known depiction of the known world. It mentions the Euphrates, Babylon, Susa, Urartu, Habban (Kassite land) and several other regions, with the ocean represented by a circle. [[Babylonian Map of the World|More information...]]

//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Borsippa\\ 
//Period//: Neo Babylonian (8th-7th century BC) \\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London \\
[[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/P365726|CDLI page]]\\ 

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82. Nippur Map



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[[http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/P401083|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=CircularAstrolabes|83. Circular "Astrolabes"]]


One of the few circular "Astrolabe" texts known from Mesopotamia [[Circular Astrolabes|More information...]]

//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Nineveh\\ 
//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) \\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London \\]

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[[diviners_ritual|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/diviners_ritual.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/images/essentials/kings/gold-tablet-large.jpg|84. Foundation Tablet in Gold]]

One of a handful known inscriptions on gold, this object was found buried in a cache in the foundations of the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad). [[Gold Foundation Tablet|More information...]] 

//Artifact//: Gold tablet \\ 
//Provenience//: Dur-Sharrukin \\ 
//Period//: Neo-Assyrian \\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris, France \\

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85. East India Company Inscription



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86. Tiglat-pileser prism

Deeds and undertakings of the Neo-Assyrian kings are commemorated among others on large prisms. This famous prism with an annalistic text was used as proof for the successful decipherment of cuneiform. 


//Artifact//: Clay prism\\ 
//Provenience//: Niniveh\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian \\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London (BM 91033) \\]

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87. Emar Foot imprint of a child



//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
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88. Ebla Diplomatic letter (Enna-Dagan)



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89. The Old Elamite Treaty of Naram-Sin

//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//:Susa, Modern Fars, Iran\\ 
//Period//: Old Akkadian\\ 
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The first explicit Elamite witness to long-standing political tensions and cultural interactions between Mesopotamia and its neighbours to the East. [[The Old Elamite Treaty of Naram-Sin|More information...]]

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[[aramaic_incantation|{{ http://cdli.ucla.edu/dl/lineart/P363730_l.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P363730|90. Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform]]

The only known cuneiform tablet that records a text solely in Aramaic, this work contains three incantations. [[Aramaic Incantation in Akkadian|More information...]]

//Artifact//: Clay tablet \\ 
//Provenience//: Uruk(?) \\ 
//Period//: Hellenistic(?) \\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris, France \\