Tablet of Shamash

Tablet of Shamash
Tablet of Shamash
	Tablet of Shamash
Material	Limestone
Size	Length: 29.2 cm, Width: 17.8 cm
Created	888–855 BC
Present location	British Museum, London. Room 55.
Registration	ME 91000

The Tablet of Shamash (also known as the Sun God Tablet or the Nabuapaliddina Tablet) is a stele recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar in southern Iraq in 1881; it is now a major piece in the British Museum's ancient Middle East collection and is a visual attestation of Babylonian cosmology. It is dated to the reign of King Nabu-apla-iddina ca. 888 – 855 BC.^[1]

^ British Museum. Dept. of Western Asiatic Antiquities; Richard David Barnett; Donald John Wiseman (1969). Fifty masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, the British Museum. British Museum. p. 41. ISBN 9780714110691. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
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[AntiquitiesBarnett1969-1] British Museum. Dept. of Western Asiatic Antiquities; Richard David Barnett; Donald John Wiseman (1969). Fifty masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, the British Museum. British Museum. p. 41. ISBN 9780714110691. Retrieved 9 April 2011.

[2] "Cover | British Museum".

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