Most Important Cuneiform Objects 11-20
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11. The Middle Assyrian Laws, A
A law collection famously including some of the oldest written regulations on women’s behaviour. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Assur
Period: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)
Current location: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
A set of large cylinders inscribed with a Sumerian hymnic composition in which king Gudea receives instructions in a dream to build a temple. More information...
Artifact: Clay cylinders (and fragments)
Provenience: Girsu, modern Tello
Period: Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)
Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris
13. Treaty between Hattushili III and Ramesses
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Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Hattusa, modern Boghazköi
Period: Middle Babylonian period (ca. 1400-1000 BC)
Current location: Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul
An important historical object from ancient Girsu mentioning Mesilim, king of Kish. More information...
Artifact: Stone macehead
Provenience: Girsu, modern Tello
Period: ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)
Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris
A Neo-Assyrian monument with a description of military triumphs, colourful images of exotic animals, and the earliest known depiction of an Israelite. More information...
Artifact: Monument, stone
Provenience: Nimrud
Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Current location: British Museum, London
An inscription which provides evidence for the deification of Naram-Sin on the base of one of the most extraordinary works of Akkadian art. More information...
Artifact: Copper monument
Provenience: Bassetki
Period: Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)
Current location: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq (IM 77823)
A key to the pronunciation of cuneiform signs from the third millennium B.C.. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Ebla
Period: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)
Current location: National Museum of Syria, Idlib
18. The Statue of Idrimi of Alalakh
The autobiography of a 2nd millennium king. More information...
Artifact: Stone statue
Provenience: Alalakh
Period: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)
Current location: British Museum, London
19. Banquet Stela of Assurnasirpal II
Assurnasirpal II boasts of the lavish feast he threw for tens of thousands of guests to celebrate the inauguration of his new capital. More information...
Artifact: Stele
Provenience: Nimrud
Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Current location: British Museum, London
20. The Largest Account of the Archaic Period
An almost completely preserved clay-tablet in proto-Elamite from ancient Susa inscribed with a complicated account.More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Susa, modern Shush
Period: Proto-Elamite (ca. 3300-3000 BC)
Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris (Sb 2801)
