M0006292: Depiction of Adad, from a cylinder lapis lazuli

Date:
May 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/52/73
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M0006292: Depiction of Adad, from a cylinder lapis lazuli. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Depiction of Adad, from a cylinder lapis lazuli.

Description

Reproduction of a line drawing of a depiction of the Mesopotamian god of storms and rain found on a cylinder lapis lazuli. The cylinder was discovered at Babylon and deposited as a votive offering by Asarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669BC). The reproduction is from an unknown publication. Related images: M0006291

Publication/Creation

May 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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