NCTU 23 (P342326)

Legal tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Museum Number

VAT 16490

Period

Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

Provenience

Uruk (mod. Warka)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Sale of shares in prebends, type broken Sale of share in temple prebend)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal (Sale of shares in prebends, type broken Sale of share in temple prebend)
Language(s)

Chronology

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

Record

CDLI number	P342326
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P342326

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment

Provenance

Provenience	Uruk (mod. Warka)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number	W 15016,h + frag.
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number	VAT 16490
Accession Number

References

history: HANEM 8,, 421-422

[Corò2005HANEM8] Corò, Paola. 2005. Prebende Templari in Età Seleucide. History of the Ancient Near East. Monographs 8. Padova : Sargon.
history: AfO (pp. 111-116), 103

[Doty1993/94AfO40/41] Doty, L. Timothy. 1993/1994. “Reviewed Work: The Late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental Institute Collection. (= Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Vol. 24) by David B. Weisberg.” Archiv Für Orientforschung 40/41: 111–16.
history: NCTU, NCTU, 37-38 (T), 47 (Tr), 74 (C)

[Sarkisian1974NCTU] Sarkisian, Gagik Kh. 1974. “New Cuneiform Texts from Uruk of the Seleucid Period in the Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin.” Archäologische Beiträge, Forschungen und Berichte, 16: 15–76.
history: AoF 05 (pp. 81-90), 84

[SarkisianAoF5] Sarkisian, Gagik Kh. 1977. “Bruchstücke von Seleukidischen Wirtschaftstexten Aus Uruk in Den Staatlichen Museen Zu Berlin.” Altorientalische Forschungen 5: 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1524/aofo.1978.5.jg.81.
history: Doty, 1988, 103

[sec62322] Doty, L. Timothy. 1988.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-30 at 18:42:22	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
2024-07-12 at 12:56:50	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-12 at 12:43:02	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-12 at 12:29:54	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-02 at 16:24:00	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	Approved
2006-07-27 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Pearce, Laurie E.	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“NCTU 23 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 30, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P342326.

NCTU 23 artifact entry (No. P342326). (2024, July 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P342326 (Original work published 2006)

NCTU 23 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P342326 (Accessed: November 2, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“NCTU 23 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 30, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P342326.

NCTU 23 artifact entry (No. P342326). (2024, July 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P342326 (Original work published 2006)

NCTU 23 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P342326 (Accessed: November 2, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-02]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 30},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P342326},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P342326},
}

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