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]
When Nabopolassar discovered the tablet it was enclosed in this fired clay cover originally made by Nabu-apla-iddina. After replacing the cover Nabopolassar buried the original alongside the tablet.[2]The box in which the tablet of Shamash was discovered.
^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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