====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 61-70====
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[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=daiva_inscription_xerxes|61. The Daiva inscription of Xerxes]]

With the help of Ahuramazda, Xerxes roots out 'false religions'. [[daiva_inscription_xerxes|More information...]]


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//Provenience//: \\ 
//Period//: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: \\ 





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[[cross_bullman|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_hoard.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cross_bullman|62. A cross for the bull-man]]

A horde of objects which display interesting imagery and relation between object and text. [[cross_bullman|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Bronze cross\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\ 

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[[literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P255993_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=literary_catalogue|63. A literary catalog]]

The incipits of Sumerian literary texts are contained in this catalogue, which may have been a mere inventory of may reflect the curriculum in Old Babylonian Nippur. [[literary_catalogue|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Nippur\\ 
//Period//: Late Old Babylonian (ca 1800-1595 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia (UM 29-15-155)\\ 

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[[astrolabe_b|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P281769_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=astrolabe_b|64. Astrolabe B]]

The best preserved text witness of a text known as 'Astrolabe B' contains a bilingual menology of each month of the year as well as a star catalogue. [[astrolabe_b|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: \\  

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[[middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P282615_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|65. Middle Assyrian Literary Catalogue]]

This is the most extensive catalogue of hymns and songs originally containing the initial words of about 400 such songs. [[middle_assyrian_literary_catalogue|More information...]]

//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin \\  

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[[pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_tukultininurta.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|66. The pedestal of Tukulti-Ninurta I]]

A cult object with an intriguing representation of divinity, and a major innovation in Assyrian narrative art. [[pedestal_tukulti_ninurta|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Stone monument\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\ 

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[[zodiac_compilation_tablet|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=zodiac_compilation_tablet|67. Zodiac Compilation Tablet]]

An annotated map of the Babylonian sky with associated omens and hemerology. [[zodiac_compilation_tablet|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Uruk, modern Warka\\ 
//Period//: Hellenistic (323-63 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 6448) and Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT 7487)\\  

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[[graeco_babyloniaca|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=graeco_babyloniaca|68. Graeco Babyloniaca]]

A unique group of cuneiform tablets with Greek transliterations on the reverse which give a window onto the decline of cuneiform writing. [[graeco_babyloniaca|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: \\ 
//Period//: Hellenistic (323-63 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford\\ 

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[[abderdeen_black_stone|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/pnnn.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=abderdeen_black_stone|69. Lord Aberdeen's Black Stone]]

Esarhaddon develops a cryptic form of Assyrian hieroglyphs. [[abderdeen_black_stone|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Stone monument\\ 
//Provenience//: Nineveh\\ 
//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ 
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[[ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|70. Ninurta-paqidat's Dog Bite]]

A humorous text which mocks the medical profession and the comic possibilities of bilingual communication. [[ninurta_pagidat_dog_bite|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: \\ 
//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\ 
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