1.3.02026-04-05coneRådata3400023objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400023BEK 184The clay cone is inscribed with an inscription of Ur-Baba, who ruled the city-state Lagash c. 2150 BC. As already noted for the previous clay cones (Nos. 1 and 2), which are from sites within the same city-state, this city-state consisted of the main cities Lagash (Modern al-Hiba) and Girsu (Modern Tello), as well as some other cities. In the publication by H. Steible, more than 300 clay cones, two bricks and one pivot stone inscribed with the same text are given. More than 200 of these clay cones are known to have been excavated in the city Girsu (Modern Tello), the others are without recorded provenance. The inscription deals with the construction by the ruler Ur-Baba of the temple for the god Nigirsu. The temple was called Eninnu, or ‘the white Anzu-bird’, and was situated in the city Girsu. All these clay cones were probably once placed in the walls of this temple. Translation: “For the god Ningirsu, strong warrior of Enlil, Ur-Baba, the ruler of Lagash, son of Ninagal, made the proper thing resplendent, and built his Eninnu, the white Anzu-bird, and returned its place to him.”BEK 184, Donation of the Hungarian-American professor Georg von Békésy (1899-1972). He was leader of the research-department at the Hungarian Telephone Company until he left Hungary in 1946. After spending a period at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (1946-1947), professor at Harvard University (1947-1966), and after that he served at the University of Hawaii. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm. His good relations to Sweden resulted in several donations received by Swedish Museums in 1972. The numbers connected with the objects in these donations are still those given by von Békésy himself., Also marked as BE 113, Well-preserved cone of baked clay, L. 16.5 cm, max. Ø 6.8 cm., Steible 1991: 145-147; Thureau-Dangin 1907: 62-63., Pedersén 1991-1992 pp. 5-6, fig. 3a-c., (Be)longing, Iraq, Från Georg von Békésy samling., Pedersén, Olof (1992) "Ancient Near Eastern Objects with Cuneiform Inscriptions: Part I. 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