BaAr 5 23 (P521874)
Legal tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UKMetadata / catalogue
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                            Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 118973Provenience
Uruk (mod. Warka)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Legal (purchase of an orchard)Language(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
95.0 mm × 62.0 mm
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                                                    Tablet                                                                                                    Artifact type comments:
                            Fingernail impressions on all four edges 
- Material: Clay
- Measurements (mm): 95.0 high × 62.0 wide
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                        Artifact comments:
                        Fingernail impressions on all four edges 
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                            primary: BaAr 5, 23 [Frame2013BaAr5] Frame, Grant. 2013. The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-Nāṣir : A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC. Babylonische Archive 5. Dresden: Islet.
 
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                            history: Frame 1982: 157б66 (copy, edition) [sec137088] N.d.
 
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                            history: Frame 1992: 286в87 [sec137647] N.d.
 
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                            citation: JCS 35 (pp. 1-90), S.1 [Brinkman1983JCS35] Brinkman, John A., and Douglas A. Kennedy. 1983. “Documentary Evidence for the Economic Base of Early Neo-Babylonian Society: A Survey of Dated Babylonian Economic Texts, 721-626 B.C.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1–2): 1–90.
 
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- Museum No.: BM 118973
- Accession No.: 1927-11-12, 0010
- Provenience: Uruk (mod. Warka)
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- Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
- Dates Referenced: Aqara
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-27 at 14:35:14 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |  | |
| 2025-10-11 at 19:08:43 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |  | |
| 2025-05-19 at 10:55:03 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |  | |
| 2024-09-11 at 09:07:18 | Firth, Richard | Artifact, Other Entity | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |  | |
| 2023-09-10 at 21:32:33 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |  | 
| 2020-12-08 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Baker, Heather D. | CDLI | approved |  | 
Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- The British Museum Collection (W_1927-1112-10) (W_1927-1112-10)
Cite this Artifact
@misc{2025BaAr,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-10-31]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {oct 27},
	title = {BaAr 5 23 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P521874},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P521874},
}
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