Tablet Of The Sun God Of Sippar (Cast)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: D Brucciani & Co
label: Site Name
content: Sippar
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Ill. S.I. Ann. Rep., 1922, Casanowicz, pl. 28 & p. 465." Plate can be viewed online here: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15654782 . P. 465 can be viewed here: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15654777 .
label: Notes
content: Cast of the Sun God Tablet, the Tablet of Shamash. Original in British Museum, British Museum Number 91000, recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar in southern Iraq in 1881; dated to the reign of King Nabu-apla-iddina ca. 888 – 855 BC; see http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=282224&partId=1. Per the British Museum, original is a limestone tablet: the scene sculptured in relief at the head of the tablet represents Nabu-aplu-iddina being led by the priest Nabu-nadin-shum and the goddess Aa into the presence of the Sun-god, who is seated within Ebabbara. Before the god is the solar disc, resting upon an altar which is supported by ropes held by attendant deities, whose bodies spring from the roof of the shrine. In the field above the Sun-god, and within the shrine, are a lunar disc, a solar disc and an eight-pointed star, the symbols of Sin, Shamash and Ishtar. The god wears a horned headdress and carries the ringed rod in his right hand. The shrine is represented as resting on the heavenly ocean. The engraved cunieform text contains a record of Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of the Sun-Temple at Sippar. The inscription is engraved in six columns, three upon the obverse and three upon the reverse; and the upper part of the obverse is occupied by a scene sculptured in low relief; the edges of the tablet are bevelled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Abu Habba (Abu Habbah), Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), Iraq, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042339
label: USNM Number
content: A229672-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast