M0006294: Tablet of Shamash, Mesopotamian sun god

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Shamash, The sun god of the Babylonians.

Photograph of the tablet of Shamash, a stone tablet found in the ruins of the temple E-Babbara at Sippar, southern Iraq. The inscription commemorates the rededication of the temple by Nebo Paliddin in 857BC. The tablet is held by the British Museum.

May 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.