Sales catalogue 542: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/94
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 542: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ORIGINAL “BABYLONIAN TABLET OF BARED@Cia INSCRIBED IN CUNEIFORM CHARACTERS (1N THE SUMERIAN LANGUAGE) WITH A RECORD OF QUANTITIES OF GRAIN AND FLOUR, WHICH MADE UP THE REGULGR OPEPERGNG FORTHE. GODDESSMIs ti TAR (ASTAROTH = VENUS) IN ONE OF HER ‘TEMPLES, FOR OWN EMO pet INV THE SECOND YEAR OF GIMIL-=SUN® cKiUN Geo taauee ABOUT B.C. 2240. The tablet measures 114 x 1% inches. Preserved in morocco lettered case. Dated second year of Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, about 8.c. 2240. (SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW.) Jipxi ‘‘ Gimil-Sin (the last but one of a dynasty of five Kings who ruled over Babylonia, ;making their capital the ancient city of Ur on the Euphrates —whence later came Abraham), found it necessary to build a strong wall in the west to protect his territory from the attacks of the Semites, who crowded his borders and threatened to dispossess him.” (See Guide to the Baby- lonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the B.M., p. 6).
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