Cuneiform Brick
Unidentified reign of Shalmaneser III maker, Assyrian, 858 - 824 BCE
Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Mesopotamia
859-824 BCE
Baked clay
Overall: 14 3/16 × 14 1/16 × 4 1/4 in. (36 × 35.7 × 10.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson through Reverend Austin Hazen Wright, Class of 1830
57.1.14413
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
Inscriptions
The translation is as follows: 1. Shalmaneser, great king, 2. powerful king, king of the world, king of Assyria 3. son of Ashur-nasir-pal, great king,4. powerful king, king of the world, king of Assyria, 5. son (in turn) of Tukulti-Ninurta, king of the world, king of Assyria 6. The structure of the ziggurat 7. of Kalhu
Course History
REL 81, Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion, Susannah Heschel, Fall 2012
ANTH 12.2, The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Jason Herrmann, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 19, 2006-June 17, 2007.
Provenance
Acquired by Reverened Austin Hazen Wright, at the request of Dartmouth Professor Oliver P. Hubbard, from Sir Henry Rawlinson, British archaeologist working at Nimrud; given to present collection, 1856.
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