CTMMA 2, 008 (P412181)

Ritual and liturgical tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), and now kept in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

Cite

Lineart

Photo (detail)

Museum Collection(s)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Museum Number

MMA 86.11.346 + VAT 00296 + VAT 00308 + VAT 00370 + VAT 01759 + VAT 01831

Period

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Ritual and liturgical (Liturgy)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Literary > Ritual and liturgical (Liturgy)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P412181
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P412181

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Babylon (mod. Bābil)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number	MMA 86.11.346 + VAT 00296 + VAT 00308 + VAT 00370 + VAT 01759 + VAT 01831
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship (BLMS)	P412181
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P412181

References

primary: CTMMA 2, 8

[Spar2005CTMMA2] Spar, Ira, and Wilfred G. Lambert. 2005. Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C. Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 2. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A.E. 117 or 118. Balag: a abzu-mu
history: HES 5, no. 3 F

[Gabbay2024HES5] Gabbay, Uri. 2024. The Balaĝ Prayer “Oh, My Abzu!” : The God Enki in Sumerian Laments. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag. Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 5.
history: SBH, 84

[Reisner1896SBH] Reisner, George A. 1896. Sumerisch-Babylonische Hymnen Nach Thontafeln Griechischer Zeit. Berlin : W. Spemann.

(VAT 01831)

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-08-14 at 18:24:06	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-08-03 at 11:38:31	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-06-15 at 20:38:30	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
2010-06-15 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI, CDLI		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CTMMA 2, 008 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 14, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P412181.

CTMMA 2, 008 artifact entry (No. P412181). (2025, August 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P412181 (Original work published 2010)

CTMMA 2, 008 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P412181 (Accessed: November 1, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“CTMMA 2, 008 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 14, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P412181.

CTMMA 2, 008 artifact entry (No. P412181). (2025, August 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P412181 (Original work published 2010)

CTMMA 2, 008 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P412181 (Accessed: November 1, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P412181},
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