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Old Babylonia, Middle Elamite Period, c.1340...
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Estimated At:3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Apr 07 @ 13:00UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
Old Babylonia, Middle Elamite Period, c.1340 - 1300 BC. A baked mud brick inscribed in Elamite cuneiform with the royal inscription of the king Untash-napirisha and must well come from the royal capital Dur-Untash, Choga Zanbil near Susa. Dimensions: 37x8.5cm. Rare and very important. "Another challenge to Susa's local supremacy arose under the igi-halkid king Untash-Napirisha (ca. 1340-1300 B.C.), who constructed his new capital, Al Untash-Napirisha, or the city of Untash-Napirisha (modern Choga Zanbil), twenty- five miles southeast of Susa on a previously unsettled plateau above the banks of the Diz River. The city centered on a ziggurat, or stepped temple tower, two hundred feet high, was built at a strategic point along a road leading to the southeastern highlands. Baked bricks inscribed in Elamite cuneiform were used in its construction. Studies of these inscriptions suggest that the establishment of Al Untash- Napirisha was an ambitious attempt to replace Susa as the political and religious center of the Elamite kingdom. The city seems to have been a kind of federal sanctuary where the gods of the highlands and the lowlands were worshiped on an equal footing. To found such ecumenical complexes at Susa, with its long history of cultural traditions influenced by Mesopotamia, might well have been more difficult. The middle Elamite kings may have established temple-cities throughout southwestern and south central Iran to strengthen control of their kingdom, although none was as large as Al Untash - Napirisha. However, the city was never finished and was practically abandoned after the death of its founder." excerpt of a lecture by M.K. Sadiq. Also see Gluck 'The World of Persian Pottery', no.94. $3000 - $4000
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