Category:Tablet-Sb 8748

Tablet-Sb 8748 

Sealed tablet with a serpent god, Susa circa 17th century BCE: "Tan-Uli, sukkalmah, sukkal from Susa and Shimashki, son of the sister of Shilhaha".
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Instance of	tablet
Depicts	prayer, orans and Napirisha
Culture	Elam
Made from material	clay
Location	Room 304, display case 3, Room 304, Sully Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris, France
Creator	unknown value
Location of discovery	Susa
Owned by	French State
Collection	Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
Inventory number	Sb 8748 (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre)
Inception	17th century BC
Width	5.8 cm
Height	6.9 cm
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Sealed tablet with a serpent god, Susa circa 17th century BCE: "Tan-Uli, sukkalmah, sukkal from Susa and Shimashki, son of the sister of Shilhaha".

Identification in (12 November 2015) The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State, Cambridge University Press, p. 170 DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316148501. : "The central panel [at Kurangun] shows a god with horned crown seated on a coiled serpent throne (Spycket 2000: 654). Behind him sits a goddess, likewise crowned, wearing the kaunakes. Each holds a pair of serpents in the left hand. In his right hand the god grasps a ‘flowing vase’ out of which streams of water flow towards the first of three worshippers who flank the divine pair on either side. The identification of the deities on the relief is a matter for speculation. It has been suggested that they represent Inshushinak and Napirisha, the ‘divine Anshanite couple’ par excellence (Vanden Berghe 1986a: 159 with further refs.; cf. Carter 1989: 147, 2014: 44; Potts 2004b; Álvarez-Mon 2014).
The representation of a god seated on a serpent throne found in the central panel at Kurangun is also attested on a number of seal impressions belonging to the ‘popular Elamite’ group (Amiet 1980c: 48–9; see also de Miroschedji 1981a; Trokay 1991; Neumann 2012), some of which were made by seals belonging to specific sukkalmahs or other royalty. These include the seals of ‘Sirahupitir, the scribe, son of Inzuzu, servant of Atta-hushu’ used on two tablets from Susa (Amiet 1972a: 296, no. 2327); (...) Tan-Uli, ‘sukkalmah, sukkal of Elam and Shimashki, sister’s son of Shilhaha’ (Amiet 1972a: 297, no. 2330; Harper et al. 1992: 117; Vallat 1989c)."