Inscribed Prism in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Corner fragment of inscribed prism

Period: Neo-Babylonian

Date: 7th century B.C.

Geography: Mesopotamia

Medium: Ceramic

Dimensions: 4.02 x 3.5 in. (10.21 x 8.89 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Tablets, Inscribed

Credit Line: Purchase, 1886

Accession Number: 86.11.280

On View

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This unusual clay kudurru (boundary stone), originally twelve-sided, records a set of royal land grants made to members of prominent Babylonian families. Among the deities whose emblems are represented above the inscribed portions of this object are Nabu, Gula, Sin, Shamash, and Ishtar.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.