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 ====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 61-70====
-[[objects51to60|[Objects 51-60]]][[draft|[Back to main page]]][[objects71to80|[Objects 71 to 80]]]
+[[objects51to60|[Previous 10 objects]]][[the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects|[Back to main page]]][[objects71to80|[Next 10 objects]]]
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+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=daiva_inscription_xerxes|61. The Daiva inscription of Xerxes]]
+With the help of Ahuramazda, Xerxes roots out 'false religions'. [[daiva_inscription_xerxes|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: \\
+//Provenience//: \\
+//Period//: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)\\
+//Current location//: \\
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+[[cross_bullman|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_hoard.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cross_bullman|62. A cross for the bull-man]]
+A horde of objects which display interesting imagery and relation between object and text. [[cross_bullman|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Bronze cross\\
+//Provenience//: Assur\\
+//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\
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+[[literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P255993_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=literary_catalogue|63. A literary catalog]]
+The incipits of Sumerian literary texts are contained in this catalogue, which may have been a mere inventory of may reflect the curriculum in Old Babylonian Nippur. [[literary_catalogue|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: Nippur\\
+//Period//: Late Old Babylonian (ca 1800-1595 BC)\\
+//Current location//: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia (UM 29-15-155)\\
+----
+[[astrolabe_b|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P281769_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=astrolabe_b|64. Astrolabe B]]
+The best preserved text witness of a text known as 'Astrolabe B' contains a bilingual menology of each month of the year as well as a star catalogue. [[astrolabe_b|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: Assur\\
+//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\
+//Current location//: \\
+----
+[[middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P282615_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|65. Middle Assyrian Literary Catalogue]]
+This is the most extensive catalogue of hymns and songs originally containing the initial words of about 400 such songs. [[middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: Assur\\
+//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin \\
+----
+[[pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_tukultininurta.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|66. The pedestal of Tukulti-Ninurta I]]
+A cult object with an intriguing representation of divinity, and a major innovation in Assyrian narrative art. [[pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Stone monument\\
+//Provenience//: Assur\\
+//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\
+----
+[[zodiac_compilation_tablet|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=zodiac_compilation_tablet|67. Zodiac Compilation Tablet]]
+An annotated map of the Babylonian sky with associated omens and hemerology. [[zodiac_compilation_tablet|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: Uruk, modern Warka\\
+//Period//: Hellenistic (323-63 BC)\\
+//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 6448) and Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT 7487)\\
+----
+[[graeco_babyloniaca|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=graeco_babyloniaca|68. Graeco Babyloniaca]]
+A unique group of cuneiform tablets with Greek transliterations on the reverse which give a window onto the decline of cuneiform writing. [[graeco_babyloniaca|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: \\
+//Period//: Hellenistic (323-63 BC)\\
+//Current location//: British Museum, London and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford\\
+----
+[[abderdeen_black_stone|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/pnnn.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=abderdeen_black_stone|69. Lord Aberdeen's Black Stone]]
+Esarhaddon develops a cryptic form of Assyrian hieroglyphs. [[abderdeen_black_stone|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Stone monument\\
+//Provenience//: Nineveh\\
+//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
+//Current location//: \\
+----
+[[ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|70. Ninurta-paqidat's Dog Bite]]
+A humorous text which mocks the medical profession and the comic possibilities of bilingual communication. [[ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|More information...]]
+//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\
+//Provenience//: \\
+//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\
+//Current location//: \\