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Image: Fired clay brick stamped with the name of Amar-Sin, Ur III, from Eridu, currently housed in the British Museum

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Description: There are nine lines of cuneiform inscriptions on this fired clay brick; stamp of the king Amar-Sin (Amar-Suen, previously misread as Bur-Sin), king of Ur. 21st century BCE. From Eridu (modern-day Tell Abu Shahrain), southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. British Museum in London.
Title: Fired clay brick stamped with the name of Amar-Sin, Ur III, from Eridu, currently housed in the British Museum
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Author: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
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