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--- objects31to40 [2013/06/27 12:59] – miller
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+[[how_to_read_signs|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to_read_signs |31. How to read signs (diri:SI.A : watru prisms)]]
+An important tool for modern scholars attempting to attach phonetic values to Sumerian signs.  [[how_to_read_signs|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: \\
+//Period//: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Ashm 1923-401)\\
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+[[tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_tiglathpileser.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text |32. Tiglath-pilesar's annalistic text]]
+Featuring in the famous 19th century decipherment challenge of the Royal Asiatic Society, independent translations of this text 'proved' that cuneiform texts were once again readable, after two thousand years of obscurity. [[tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay prism\\
+//Provenience//: Assur\\
+//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\
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+[[succession_treaty_essarhadon|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=succession_treaty_essarhadon |33. The Succession Treaty of Essarhadon]]
+Esarhaddon's treaty to establish Aššurbanipal as his successor to the throne of Assyria in the seventh century BC. [[succession_treaty_essarhadon|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: \\
+//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
+//Current location//: \\
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 [[descent_ishtar_netherworld|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/pnnn.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=descent_ishtar_netherworld |31. The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=descent_ishtar_netherworld |34. The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld]]
 This Akkadian poem tells the myth of the descent of Ishtar, goddess of love, fertility, and war, into the Netherworld and her resurrection. [[descent_ishtar_netherworld|More information...]]
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 //Provenience//: Nineveh\\
 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
-//Current location//: British Museum, London ()\\
+//Current location//: British Museum, London\\
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 [[taylor_prism|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/pnnn.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=taylor_prism |32. The Taylor Prism]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=taylor_prism |35. The Taylor Prism (Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem)]]
-Including the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrian king's forces, here is a rare moment of parallel with the bible, that provides its own accounts of the same event. [[taylor_prism|More information...]]
+Sennacherib's annals, including a description of the siege of Jerusalem which can be compared and contrasted with the biblical account. [[taylor_prism|More information...]]
 //Artifact//: Clay prism\\
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-[[black_obelisk|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_blackobelisk.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=black_obelisk |33. The Black Obelisk]]
-A Neo-Assyrian monument with a description of military triumphs, colourful images of exotic animals, and the earliest known depiction of an Israelite. [[black_obelisk|More information...]]
-//Artifact//: Monument, stone\\
-//Provenience//: \\
-//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
-//Current location//: British Museum, London ()\\
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 [[tablet_on_epilepsy|{{ http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00412/AN00412317_001_l.jpg?100|© The Trustees of the British Museum |}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tablet_on_epilepsy |34. A Tablet on Epilepsy]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tablet_on_epilepsy |36. A Tablet on Epilepsy]]
 An important Neo-Babylonian manuscript of a medical treatise that gives detailed descriptions of epilepsy. [[tablet_on_epilepsy|More information...]]
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 //Provenience//: \\
 //Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\
-//Current location//: \\
+//Current location//: British Museum, London\\
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 [[venus_tablet_ammisaduqa|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/NA_Ammisaduqa.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=venus_tablet_ammisaduqa |35. Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=venus_tablet_ammisaduqa |37. Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa]]
 A scholarly text providing astronomical observations of the planet Venus. [[venus_tablet_ammisaduqa|More information...]]
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 //Provenience//: Nineveh\\
 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
-//Current location//: British Museum, London ()\\
+//Current location//: British Museum, London\\
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 [[tale_poor_man_nippur|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tale_poor_man_nippur |36. Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tale_poor_man_nippur |38. The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur]]
-Humour, violence, poverty and a goat in an Akkadian folk-tale. [[tale_poor_man_nippur|More information...]]
+Humour, violence, poverty, and a goat in an Akkadian folk-tale. [[tale_poor_man_nippur|More information...]]
 //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
 //Provenience//: Sultantepe\\
 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
-//Current location//: \\
+//Current location//: Archaeological Museum, Ankara\\
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 [[sargon_birth_legend|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargon_birth_legend |37. Sargon's Birth Legend]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargon_birth_legend |39. Sargon's Birth Legend]]
 The story of a baby sent down-river in a basket at birth, destined to become king. [[sargon_birth_legend|More information...]]
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 //Provenience//: Nineveh\\
 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
-//Current location//: British Museum, London, UK (K 03401 + Sm 2118)\\
+//Current location//: British Museum, London (K 03401 + Sm 2118)\\
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 [[bilingual_statue_tell_fekherye|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=bilingual_statue_tell_fekherye |38. A bilingual statue from Tell Fekherye]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=bilingual_statue_tell_fekherye |40. A bilingual statue from Tell Fekherye]]
 A statue with a bilingual inscription in Akkadian and Aramaic that sheds light on the interaction between these two languages in the Neo-Assyrian period. [[bilingual_statue_tell_fekherye|More information...]]
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 //Artifact//: Basalt statue\\
 //Provenience//: Tell Fekherye\\
-//Period//: Neo-Assyrian
+//Period//: Neo-Assyrian\\
 //Current location//:
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-[[cylinder_nabonidus|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cylinder_nabonidus |39. A cylinder of Nabonidus]]
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. [[cylinder_nabonidus|More information...]]
-//Artifact//: Clay cylinder\\
-//Provenience//: \\
-//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\
-//Current location//: \\
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-[[shamash_tablet|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=shamash_tablet |40. The Shamash Tablet]]
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. [[shamash_tablet|More information...]]
-//Artifact//: Stone tablet\\
-//Provenience//: \\
-//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\
-//Current location//: \\