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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Brick with Cuneiform Inscription
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Brick with Cuneiform Inscription

AAT Object Techniqueinscribing
AAT Object Form/Functionbrick (visual works)
Place ExcavatedBabylon, Iraq, Asia
CultureBabylonian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian Period, Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II
Date604-562 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineCollected by William A. Shelton, funded by John A. Manget
Dimensions3 x 14 15/16 x 14 15/16 in. (7.6 x 38 x 37.9 cm)
Object number1921.104
Published ReferencesWilliam A. Shelton, Dust and Ashes of Empires (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1924), 112.
ProvenanceAcquired for Emory University Museum by William Shelton (1875-1959), ca. 1920.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art