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BABYLON 2

The basalt dedication bowl was found near Bagdad in the 1880s and was brought to the British Museum in 1888. The 0.23 meter high and 0.33 meter wide bowl has on its outer surface a single line Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, which indicates a dedication to the Storm God and the gods Kubaba and Karhuha. As suspected for BABYLON 3 bowl, it is possible that this bowl too was taken to Babylon from Aleppo after the conquest of the city in the Neo-Babylonian period. It is in the British Museum collection.

Inscribed dedication bowl - British Museum Inscribed dedication bowl - J. D. Hawkins, 2000 A drawing of Hierolyphic Luwian inscription (BABYLON 2) - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 394–96 and plt. 211.
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 251, 334.
Payne, A. Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Atlanta, 2012: 89.


Image sources:
British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
J. David Hawkins, 2000.