Literary Cuneiform Tablet
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Literary Cuneiform Tablet
Late 2nd millennium BCE
Clay
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/8 in. x 1 1/4 in. (9.2 cm x 5.4 cm x 3.2 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
T.235
Acquisition Date:
1969
Geography:
Asia, Iraq, Ninawa, Probably Tell Nabi Yunus
(Probably Kuyunjik (Nineveh))
Classification:
Documents and Documentary Artifacts
Culture/Nationality:
Akkadian
Keywords
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- Akkadian - Refers to the culture, period, and style in Mesopotamia from about 2340 to 2150 BCE during the rule of the dynasty founded by Sargon of Akkad. This style is characterized by a sense of realism and a high degree of artistic technical achievement.
- cuneiform - Script originally developed for the Sumerian language in the 3rd millennium BCE, consisting of characters made in clay with a wedge-shaped stylus.
- inscriptions - Words, texts, lettering, or symbols marked on a work, including texts, legends, documentation notes, or commemoration. For standardized symbols or notations on objects that convey official information, use "marks (symbols)."
- Mesopotamian glyptic styles - Glyptic styles belonging to Mesopotamian cultures.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Beyond the Shores of Tripoli Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University , Dec 20, 1979 – Jan 27, 1980
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Owner Name: Dorthea Chambers Blaisdell, Class of 1919, and Ann Blaisdell Irvine, Class of 1969
Role: Donor
Place: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Acquisition Method: Inherited from Talcott Williams
Disposal Method: Donation to Bryn Mawr College
Ownership Start Date: Likely 1928 or earlier
Ownership End Date: 1969
Remarks: Talcott Williams was the uncle of Dorothea Chambers Blaisdell
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Owner Name: Talcott Williams
Role: Collector
Acquisition Method: Inherited or Gifted from Parents
Disposal Method: Bequest or Gift to Neice
Ownership Start Date: Unknown
Ownership End Date: 1928 or earlier
Remarks: Talcott Williams Parents were William Frederick and Sarah Amelia (Pond) Williams. His neice was Dorothea Chambers Blaisdell
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Owner Name: William Frederick Williams
Role: Collector
Place: Mosul, Turkey
Acquisition Method: Purchased "from an Arab while riding through the mounds opposite Mosul."
Disposal Method: Likely Gifted or Bequeathed to Son
Ownership Start Date: ca. 1850
Ownership End Date: 1871 or earlier
Remarks: The tablet fragment is thought to have come from the southwest palace of Kuyunjik where Austin Henry Layard found almost 24,000 clay tablets from Ashurbanipal's Library in 1850.
Bibliography List
The following Bibliography exist for this object:
- Jenny V. Canby, "Mesopotamia to Bryn Mawr," Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin (Winter 1970): 4.
- Maria deJ. Ellis, Cuneiform Tablets at Bryn Mawr College The Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Cambridge, MA, 1979
- Morris Jastrow, Jr., A Fragment of the Babylonian 'Dibbara' Epic University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia, PA, 1891
- Andrew Oliver, Jr., "Beyond the Shores of Tripoli." (1979): Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, NY.
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Luigi Cagni,
L'Epopea di Erra
Instituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente, Universita di Roma.
Rome, Italy, 1969
Page Number: 51, Figure Number: Tav. III-IV
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