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JCS 21, 255-262 (P208501)

Literary tablet dated to the Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 026187

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary (shu-íl-la to Ishtar)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Literary (shu-íl-la to Ishtar)
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: JCS 21 (pp. 255-266)

[Güterbock1967JCS21] Reiner, Erica, and Hans G. Güterbock. 1967. “The Great Prayer to Ishtar and Its Two Versions from Boǧazköy.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 21 (1): 255–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359374.
history: STC 2, pl.75-84

[King1902STC2] King, Leonard W. 1902. The Seven Tablets of Creation: Vol. 2 Supplementary Texts. Vol. 13. Luzac’s Semitic Text and Translation Series. London : Luzac.
history: Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns, 257-290

[Zernecke2011Reading] Zernecke, Anna E. 2011. “A Shuilla: Ishtar 2 ‘The Great Ishtar Prayer.’” In Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction, edited by Alan Lenzi, 257–90. Ancient Near East Monographs. Society of Biblical Literature.

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Museum No.: BM 026187
Accession No.: 1898-05-14, 0005

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Chronology

Period: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-05-25 at 15:14:05	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-11-02 at 17:20:56	Lenzi, Alan	Artifact metadata	Lenzi, Alan	Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:19:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.26187) (BM.26187)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila-Prayers Online (ORACC) (P208501) (P208501)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P208501) (P208501)
British Museum Collection (W_1898-0514-5) (W_1898-0514-5)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online (P208501.html) (P208501.html)

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Cite this Artifacts

“JCS 21, 255-262 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P208501.

JCS 21, 255-262 artifact entry (No. P208501). (2024, May 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P208501 (Original work published 2002)

JCS 21, 255-262 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P208501 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P208501},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“JCS 21, 255-262 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P208501.

JCS 21, 255-262 artifact entry (No. P208501). (2024, May 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P208501 (Original work published 2002)

JCS 21, 255-262 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P208501 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {may 25},
	title = {JCS 21, 255-262 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P208501},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P208501},
}

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