BRM 2, 36 (P296714)

Legal tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

MLC 02136

Period

Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

Provenience

Uruk (mod. Warka)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Sale of allotment and real estate)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

101.0 mm × 120.0 mm × 33.0 mm

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal (Sale of allotment and real estate)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Hellenistic (323-63 BC)
Dates Referenced	HE.SE.131.03.12
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P296714
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P296714

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions	101.0 mm × 120.0 mm × 33.0 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment (Surface: Fair)

Provenance

Provenience	Uruk (mod. Warka)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum Number	MLC 02136
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Yale Babylonian Collection (YBC)	BC-002082
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	MLC.2136

References

primary: BRM 2, 36

[Clay1913BRM2] Clay, Albert Tobias. 1913. Legal Documents from Erech Dated in the Seleucid Era (312 - 65 B. C.). Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Part 2. New York: privately printed.
history: BiOr 22, p.239-242, p. 239

[Cocquerillat1965calculs] Cocquerillat, Denise. 1965. “Les Calculs Pratiques Sur Les Fractions à l’époque Séleucide.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 22: 239–42.
history: HANEM 8,, 395-398

[Corò2005HANEM8] Corò, Paola. 2005. Prebende Templari in Età Seleucide. History of the Ancient Near East. Monographs 8. Padova : Sargon.
history: Doty diss., 135-136

[Doty1977HellenisticUruk] Doty, L. Timothy. 1977. “Cuneiform Archives from Hellenistic Uruk.” Phdthesis, Yale University.
history: CM 25, 42

[Linssen2004CM25] Linssen, Marc J.H. 2004. The Cults of Uruk and Babylon : The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practises. Vol. 25. Cuneiform Monographs. Leiden, Boston : Brill, Styx.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-20 at 13:41:42	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-09-20 at 13:40:32	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-12 at 13:11:09	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-12 at 13:08:36	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-11 at 16:05:05	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:01:26	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-02-08 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Guerra, Dylan; Middeke-Conlin, Robert; Pace, Carl	Yale Babylonian Collection	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“BRM 2, 36 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 20, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P296714.

BRM 2, 36 artifact entry (No. P296714). (2024, September 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P296714 (Original work published 2006)

BRM 2, 36 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P296714 (Accessed: October 22, 2026).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 20},
	title = {BRM 2, 36  artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P296714},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P296714},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“BRM 2, 36 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 20, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P296714.

BRM 2, 36 artifact entry (No. P296714). (2024, September 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P296714 (Original work published 2006)

BRM 2, 36 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P296714 (Accessed: October 22, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-22]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 20},
	title = {BRM 2, 36  artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P296714},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P296714},
}

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DA  - 2024/9/20/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P296714
LB  - CDLI:P296714
M1  - 2026/10/22/
TI  - BRM 2, 36  artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P296714
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