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 ====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 81-90====
-[[objects71to80|[Objects 71-80]]][[draft|[Back to main page]]][[objects91to100|[Objects 91 to 100]]]
+[[objects71to80|[Previous 10 objects]]][[the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects|[Back to main page]]][[objects91to100|[Final 10 objects]]]
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+. Babylonian Map of the World
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//:\\
+//Period//: \\
+//Current location//: \\]
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+. Nippur Map
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//:\\
+//Period//: \\
+//Current location//: \\]
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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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+. East India Company Inscription
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//:\\
+//Period//: \\
+//Current location//: \\]
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+. 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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+. Emar Foot imprint of a child
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//:\\
+//Period//: \\
+//Current location//: \\]
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+. Ebla Diplomatic letter (Enna-Dagan)
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//:\\
+//Period//: \\
+//Current location//: \\]
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+. 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. [[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 \\