Brick with inscription of Ashurbanipal describing building work on Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur

c. 668–631 BC · Assyria

Brick with inscription of Ashurbanipal describing building work on Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur, from Assyria, dated c. 668–631 BC. It was found at Nippur. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 668–631 BC

Civilization

Assyria

Found at

Nippur

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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