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Inscribed brick: ANE.1.1864

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 23

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Description

Brick, inscribed with text for 'Palace of Sennacherib', Nineveh

Measurements and weight

Depth: 0.115 m
Length: 0.348 m
Width: 0.35 m

Place(s) associated

  • Nineveh ⪼ Iraq

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1864) by Moore, D., Reverend

Dating

Late Assyrian
-704 BCE - -681 BCE

Materials used in production

Clay

Identification numbers

Accession number: ANE.1.1864
Primary reference Number: 86637
Oldadmincategory: O
Oldobjectnumber: WAE.1.1864
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 16 May 2012 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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