Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil

c. 1600–1401 BC · Babylon

Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil, from Babylonia, dated c. 1600–1401 BC. It was found at Nippur. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 1600–1401 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Nippur

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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