Architectural Elements
This category includes elements used in constructing or decorating buildings.
Architectural Elements is a large category that encompases building material such as bricks, elements of buildings such as door/gate sockets and drain pipes, and decorations including wall cones of various sizes and styles. This larger category also includes models of columns, houses, shrines, and tombs. They are constructed from all materials and date to all periods.
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 7781 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone (fragm) Dedication to [^dNin]-ezen+la (cf. found. tablet of Kurigalzu). a reference to E Kis-ser-gal cf. also Lipit-Ishtar cone, U.7702 HC.28 |
![]() | 779 | (none) | 1923,1110.9 | (none) | Clay Cone, base of larger. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple to the war-god Ilbaba, in gratitude for victory over his enemies. |
![]() | 7796 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick Siniddinam inscription, and marked [drawing of two crescents] = U3115, the only other example? |
![]() | 7797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone (frag) (1st col.) Lipit Ishtar/, U.7702 with the variant noted SAK 204 Anm.i or U.7845 |
![]() | 7798 | (none) | 1928,1009.5 | (none) | Clay cone Large fragment =Siniddinam V 2900 (variants) HC.28 |
![]() | 780 | (none) | 1923,1110.7 | (none) | Large clay cone. Inscription of Rim [written above; Arab is scratched out] -Sin, dedication to Tammus. Recording the king's building of a temple called Ka'-li-sud for Tammuz, the rustic god, and praying that he may prosper and increase the flocks and herds. |
![]() | 781 | (none) | 1923,1110.10 | (none) | Large clay cone, shaft broken. Inscription of [three words crossed out] Rim-Sin. Dedicated to Nannar. Commemorating the king's building of edifice [written above crossed out word 'temple'] called E-ginabtum (some sort of storehouse, cf. P.A.XV. P.18.n10) to the god, and containing laudatory epithets applied to the moon. |
![]() | 7815 | (none) | 1928,1009.525 | (none) | Brick? Inscription in a writing not yet identified: and scribblings. cf. U.6900. HC.35. |
![]() | 7817 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone Kudurmabug = 2801 B |
7818A | (none) | (none) | B17244 | [A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40 | |
![]() | 7818B | (none) | 1928,1009.1 | (none) | [A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40 |
![]() | 7818C | (none) | (none) | B17244 | [A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40 |
![]() | 7818D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40 |
![]() | 782 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Segment from large clay cone. Inscription of Rim-Sin on base and shaft. Practically illegible. Nothing but fragments of titles preserved. |
![]() | 7820 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Kudurmabug - U.2882 but half breadth. |
![]() | 7821 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick Nabonidus = U2863 but half breadth. |
![]() | 7822 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick with game board? |
![]() | 7823 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick not identified about 26 lines. |
![]() | 7824 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick Sinbalatsuiqbi = U3161 (but l. 2 apparently has za-nam-til-la-su) |
![]() | 7829 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Warad-Sin = U.19 etc. (SAK 212 C). B. |
![]() | 783 | (none) | 1923,1110.13 | (none) | Fragment from shaft of large clay cone. Parts of 2 col inscription, of [Arad-Sin crossed out] Rim-Sin, dedication to Enlil (?) Inscr. contains substance of the date formula for 15th. year of Rim-Sin. |
![]() | 7830 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Socket. Diorite. UrNammu = 2749 etc. |
![]() | 7834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
![]() | 7845A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cone. Fragments of two duplicate cones. 1st col. nearly duplicates U.7702 (Libit-Ishtar) but with the variant in l. 13 noted in SAK 204. Anm. i. 2nd col. is a new text. Part of another of same (col. 1 line 10 omits -na) cf. also U.7797. HC.49. |
![]() | 7845B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cone. Fragments of two duplicate cones. 1st col. nearly duplicates U.7702 (Libit-Ishtar) but with the variant in l. 13 noted in SAK 204. Anm. i. 2nd col. is a new text. Part of another of same (col. 1 line 10 omits -na) cf. also U.7797. HC.49. |
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