Wall cone with cuneiform text

Details

• Title

  Wall cone with cuneiform text

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Ur (Tell Muqayyar) (place of excavation)

• Date

  2100 BC - 2000 BC

• Material and technique

  clay

• Object type

  architecture › wall cone;

  communications equipment › tablet

• Dimensions

  12 cm (length)
  Head 6 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by The Trustees of the British Museum, 1935.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1935.774

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