This is an old revision of the document!
Most Important Cuneiform Objects 71-80
[Previous 10 objects][Back to main page][Next 10 objects]
71. The Ugaritic Baal Myth, tablet four
A sweeping tale of Baal’s struggle for an elevated position in the divine pantheon. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience:Ras Shamra, Syria
Period: Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1200 BCE)
Current location: The National Museum of Aleppo, Syria\\]
72. The Old Elamite Treaty of Naram-Sin
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience:Susa, Modern Fars, Iran
Period: Old Akkadian
Current location: \\]
The first explicit Elamite witness to long-standing political tensions and cultural interactions between Mesopotamia and its neighbours to the East. More information...
Though several manuscripts are known, this large clay prism is an extraordinary text witness of the so-called Ur-Namma Law Code. More information...
Artifact: Clay prism
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Ur III
Current location: Schøyen Collection, Oslo
The tablet, whose content was interpreted as highlighting the rituals undertaken by the diviner, is unique so far in the cuneiform textual record. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Old Babylonian
Current location: Harvard Semitic Museum
75. Lamentation over the Destruction of Lagash
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Girsu
Period: ED IIIb
Current location: Louvre, Paris
76. Tablet I of the Creation Myth
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Kish
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Current location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
77. Old Babylonian list of deities
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Old Babylonian
Current location: Louvre, Paris
Gold Foundation Tablet 78. 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). Found together with three other inscriptions on precious materials, including silver, the inscription commemorates Sargon II's founding of the Neo-Assyrian capital at Dur-Sharrukin (AO 19933).
Artifact: Gold tablet
Provenience: Dur-Sharrukin
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Current location: Louvre Museum
79. Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform
The only known cuneiform tablet that records a text solely in Aramaic (AO 6489). More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Uruk
Period: Hellenistic
Current location: Louvre Museum
