cylinder
- Museum number
- 22502
- Title
- Object: The Bellino Cylinder
- Description
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Clay barrel cylinder, 64 line cuneiform inscription, Neo-Assyrian; thrown, with rotation marks inside; hollow; slightly concave finished base, perforated before firing with a circular hole.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.40 centimetres (hole through one end)
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Length: 25.40 centimetres
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Width: 8.00 - 8.20 centimetres (at each end)
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Width: 12.06 centimetres (maximum)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (Room 1 - Enlightenment, Scripts, Wall Press 71, Shelf 5)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018, 19 Oct - 25 Mar, Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudehen, Nineveh
Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003.
1989 28 May-27 Aug, Germany, Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Europa und der Orient : 800-1900 (Ex Oriente Lux)
1986 9 Oct-1987 29 Mar, BM, 'Claudius James Rich. Diplomat, archaeologist and collector'
Exhibition: 'Layard and his Successors. Assyrian Explorations and Discovery in the XIXth century', Assyrian Basement 1 Jul-31 Aug 1963.
- Acquisition notes
- Attached old paper label reads "From Nineveh"; this object was found at Nebi Yunus rather than Kouyunjk and described by Rich as "a small earthen vase covered with cuneiform writing".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 22502
- Registration number
- 1825,0503.102
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: R.102
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Miscellaneous number: K 1680 (previous registration number)
