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Inscribed Fragments of a Statue From Nimrud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

P. Hulin
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At the foot of, and roughly south-south-east of, the ziggurrat at Nimrud stood the temple of Ninurta, on the floor of room 1 of which, excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq in 1956, were found “a number of fragments, some of them inscribed, of a burnt white limestone statue of Shalmaneser III, in the round.” These fragments, now in the Iraq Museum, were numbered as a group by the excavator ND 5571, and by the Iraq Museum IM 60497. They comprised the right elbow and a small part of adjacent body behind and below (IM 60497A), two subsequently joined inscribed fragments (IM 60497B), a fragment of clasped hands (IM 60497C), and some other fragments including one bearing traces of seven lines of inscription so very slight as to be, for the present writer, beyond consecutive comprehension.

The right elbow of the statue of Shalmaneser III “found in fragments by a ploughman in fields in the outer town near the foot of the south-east corner of the akropolis” is missing; but not only is the thickness (13 cm.) of the forearm at the lower end of the elbow-fragment IM 60497A considerably too small to fit the upper end of the right forearm of the statue found by the ploughman, but it also extends too far above the elbow (that is, it extends upwards beyond the point above the elbow down to which the statue's upper arm is preserved) to allow any possibility of regarding it as having belonged to the ploughman's statue.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , Spring 1966 , pp. 84 - 88
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1966

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References

1 Mallowan, M. E. L., Nimrud and its Remains, p. 86 (plan on p. 84)Google Scholar; reported by him earlier in Iraq XIX (1957) p. 5Google Scholar.

2 This fragment measures 54 mm. across, 62 mm. down, and 21 mm. thick; its middle five lines occupy 32 mm. vertically, i.e. an average of 6·4 mm. a line; hardly more than one sign a line, sometimes less, survives.

3 ND 5500, IM 60496; Mallowan, ibid.; Laessøe, J., Iraq XXI (1959), pp. 147–157CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 In his “Display Inscription” (Winckler, H., Die Keilschrifttexte Sargons, Bd. II, pl. 32, no. 67, 1. 58; Bd. I, p. 108Google Scholar); Luckenbill, , Ancient Records II para. 56Google Scholar.

5 Mallowan, ibid., with the inference that the text “probably pertains to the king's sixteenth year”.

6 F. Thureau-Dangin, Une Relation de la Huitième Campagne de Sargon, l. 42.

7 Winckler, op. cit. Bd. II, pl. 8, no. 15, l. 11; Bd. I p. 32, l. 193; A. G. Lie, The Annals of Sargon, l. 219; Luckenbill, op. cit. II para. 27.

8 RLA II 429Google Scholar (798), 431 (736), transliterating K 51 (HR 52.1 “Reverse” l. 19).

9 ND 4301+ 4305 + 5422, Iraq XVIII (1956) pl. XXII (after p. 129) l. 12′Google Scholar, and Iraq XXVI (1964) pl. XXVI (after p. 124)Google Scholar; similarly, but referring to the place as a town, Rost, P., Die Keilscbrifttexte Tiglat-Pilesers III, Bd. II, pl. XXIII, l. 9Google Scholar; Bd. I, p. 46, l. 27.

10 Mon. I 14.

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12 Mon. I 29.

13 Mon. II 45.

14 Ob. 143.

15 Pliny, , Natural History, VI xxxi 128Google Scholar, speaks of the Arsanias as flowing close to the Tigris and as thereafter discharging into the Euphrates; Tozer, H. F., A History of Ancient Geography, 2nd edn. (1935) p. 219Google Scholar (referring to Pliny l.c.) states that the Arsanias “is almost certainly the Murad, or eastern branch of the Euphrates.” The Ftrat is called Karasu (“black water”) near its source; and the Murat is joined near Mush by a tributary called Karasu.

16 Ann. I 60.

17 E.g. AfO 3 (1926), p. 158, n.3Google Scholar.

18 Thureau-Dangin, op. cit. l. 10.

19 E.g. Mon. II 51, 65; Winckler, op. cit. Bd. II, pl. 3, no. 4, l. 6; Bd. I, p. 10, l. 45 (Lie, op. cit. l. 193).

20 E.g. Mon. I 31, 48; IM 54669 I 54 (Sumer VI, 1950, p. 11Google Scholar).