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Lot 66
CÔNE DE FONDATION SUMÉRIEN EN TERRE CUITE POUR LE ROI ISHME-DAGAN
Règne d'Ishme-Dagan, Roi d'Isin, 1953-1935 av. J.C.
12 December 2025, 11:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€2,000 - €3,000
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CÔNE DE FONDATION SUMÉRIEN EN TERRE CUITE POUR LE ROI ISHME-DAGAN
Règne d'Ishme-Dagan, Roi d'Isin, 1953-1935 av. J.C.
Règne d'Ishme-Dagan, Roi d'Isin, 1953-1935 av. J.C.
A SUMERIAN TERRACOTTA FOUNDATION CONE FOR KING ISHME-DAGAN
Reign of Ishme-Dagan, King of Isin, 1953-1935 B.C.
With lines of Sumerian Cuneiform, reading: Ishme-Dagan, mighty man, king of Isin, king of the four corners (of the world), when he cancelled the tribute obligations of Nippur, the city beloved by Enlil, and freed its men from military service, he built the great city wall of Isin. The name of that wall is "By the grace of Enlil, Ishme-Dagan is powerful."
(Tip missing, with some chipping and discolouration)
11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.) long
Footnotes
Provenance
With Edmond Sollberger (12 October 1920 – 21 June 1989).
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above in 1976. The purchase recorded in a March 1985 insurance valuation.
Ancient Isin is the modern site of Tell Bahriayat, located on an ancient course of the Euphrates River in central Babylonia.
In 1949 the Sumerian scholar Edmond Solberger, became an Assistant Keeper of archaeology at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva where he wrote Études de Linguistique Sumérienne (1950), Le Système Verbal dans les Inscriptions "Royales" Présargoniques de Lagaš (1952) and Corpus des Inscriptions "Royales" Présargoniques de Lagaš (1956). He joined the Western Asiatic Department of the British Museum in 1961 and rose to the position of Keeper of the Department in 1974.