Luwian hieroglyphic inscription
- Title:
- Luwian hieroglyphic inscription
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Date:
- before 1872
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 128), Cornell University
previously, Warehouse - ID Number:
- CCC_0124
- Accession Number:
- written in pencil on cast: cast of inscription on the end of a stone in the bridge of the Shkeikh, North
at Hamath Syria, now in the Ottoman museum Constantinople
on wooden box: sent from University Museum of Penn to Cornell,to Mr. Durham, Dept. of Classics
124 - File Name:
- CCC_0124.tif
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster
- Measurement:
- 65 x 55 (with frame) x 6 (centimeters)
cast: 60.5 x 50.5 (centimeters) - Description:
- The cast represents the left block of two which bore the inscription, "a building inscription of Urhilina, king of Hamath, recording the construction and endowment of the temple of the goddess Ba'alat."
In 1872 the inscriptions were moved from their original location to "the saray, where plaster casts were made for the British Museum and Palestine Exploration Fund. Inscriptions had reached Istanbul Museum by 1877." - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Inventory no. 7692 - Bibliography:
- John David Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Volume 1: Inscriptions of the Iron Age (Berlin, 2000) Pt. 2, pp. 403-406, and Pt. 3, Plate 213.
- Repository:
- Istanbul, Museum of the Ancient Orient
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.