Category:Plans of a house AO 338

**Plan of a house or temple. Tello, Lower Mesopotamia (Iraq).**
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Instance of	tablet; floor plan;
Made from material	clay;
Location	Room 227, Richelieu Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris, France
Location of discovery	Girsu;
Owned by	French State;
Collection	Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre;
Inventory number	AO 338 (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre);
Inception	3rd millennium BC (end of);
Width	9 cm;
Height	11 cm;
Authority file
	Q112288090; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010124619
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Plans of a house AO 338

Plan of a house or temple. Tello, Lower Mesopotamia (Iraq).

Title

Plan of a house or temple. Tello, Lower Mesopotamia (Iraq).

Object type

tablet / floor plan

Description

The building is divided into 6 rooms, three for official purposes and three for private purposes. The function and sizes of most rooms is specified: unspecified (7 × 3 metres), "vestibule" (kisal, 6 × 4.5 m), "inner room" or "sanctuary" (pa-pah, 3 × 6 m), "private quarters" (ki-tus, 4 × 6 m), "dark room" (e-sa 2 m wide), lost. The dimensions of the rooms have been writen by a scribe, indicating that the drawing is not to scale.

Date

late 3^rd millennium BC

Medium

clay

Dimensions

height: 11 cm (4.3 in); width: 9 cm (3.5 in); thickness: 1.6 cm (0.6 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Mésopotamie, room 3: Mésopotamie, IIe millénaire avant J.-C.. Richelieu, ground floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities).

Accession number

AO 338 (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre)

Place of discovery

Girsu

Object history

1895: excavated by Ernest de Sarzec.

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 24724

Authority file

: Q112288090
Louvre: 010124619

Media in category "Plans of a house AO 338"

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