==The Pedestal of Tukulti-Ninurta I==

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//Artifact//: Stone monument\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian period (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Akkadian\\ 
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//Description//: Although the cult pedestal of the Middle Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta mentions in its short inscription that it is dedicated to the god Nuska, the relief on the front that depicts the king in a rare kind of narrative, standing and kneeling in front of the very same pedestal was frequently discussed by art-historians. More strikingly on top of the depicted pedestal there is not the lamp, the usual divine symbol for the god Nuska, but most likely the representation of a tablet and a stylus, symbols for the god Nabû. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford)

//Editions//: Grayson, A.K. 1987. //The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Period, I: Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. (to 1115 B.C.)//, Toronto, p. 279ff.; Bahrani, Z. 2003. //The Graven Image. Representation in Babylonia and Assyria.// Philadelphia, 192ff. 

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