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Location

  • Iraq, Qaryat ‘Abbās al ‘Almān
  • geo:33.058163,44.251637
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -875~ / -850~

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina

data access 42312

The black dioriteTablet of the priest Nabu-apla-iddina (c. 888 – 855 BC) was found at  Sippar ( Abu-Habbah) in 1881 by Hormuzd Rassam` team. Currently on display in British Museum no. 90922.

It is 17,5 cm high, 3.50 cm thick, 10,6 cm wide.

The obvers depicts the priest Nabu-aplu-iddina, standing with his right hand raised in the presence of the king.

See:

  1. Julian Reade, Babylonian boundary-stones and comparable monuments in the British Museum, Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 5, 1987, p. 48
  2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1883-0120-1

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-05-26) , last updated by Ludwinski (2022-11-05), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/42312
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. and , L., Tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina. https://vici.org/vici/42312, accessed 2026-09-24.