Cone of Lipit-Ishtar

1934-1924 BCE (Old Babylonian)

5.3 cm 11.2 cm

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The tidy Akkadian cuneiform characters, impressed neatly in horizontal registers all around this votive cone, describe an offering made by Lipit-Ishtar to the god Enlil and his consort Ninlil near the palace gates of the city of Isin. Lipit-Ishtar (also known as Lipit-Eshtar)...

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Edgar J. Banks, Alpine, New Jersey, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from from Senkereh]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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