Unpublished Clay Tablets from the Iraqi Museum
Abstract
This research deals with the publication and study of six previously unpublished Terracotta tablets currently kept in the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, all of which are confiscated pieces (confiscated pieces are those pieces that were stolen from archaeological sites in an unofficial manner and were seized by official authorities to be later delivered to the Iraqi Museum and registered under the name of confiscated antiquities). After obtaining official approvals for our study of these pieces, they were carefully examined and scrutinized to be the subject of the submitted research. The research included an analytical and applied study of all the technical details of these panels, from photographing and documenting information about their shapes and museum numbers, as well as their measurements, colors, and condition, as well as drawing them. Since any study requires a comparison of these pieces of art in order to verify and determine the technical and artistic advantages and attribute these pieces of art to the era to which they belong, it became clear to us that these tablets date back to the ancient Babylonian era. In studying these clay tablets, I relied on the analytical and descriptive artistic archaeological method. As for the subject and content of these pottery panels, two of them represent gods and the third represents the naked female.
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