AchHist 15, 049 (P413323)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 103474

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Work contract of the brewer’s prebend)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Work contract of the brewer’s prebend)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced	Darius1.--.08.17
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P413323
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P413323

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM 103474
Accession Number	1911-04-08, 0164

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)	172234
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	BM.103474
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1911-0408-164

References

primary: AchHist 15, 49

[Waerzeggers2010Borsippa] Waerzeggers, Caroline. 2010. The Ezida Temple of Borsippa. Priesthood, Cult, Archives. Achaemenid History 15. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-09-15 at 08:16:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 08:02:28	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2010-08-06 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Salmi, Senja		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 049 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 15, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P413323.

AchHist 15, 049 artifact entry (No. P413323). (2023, September 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413323 (Original work published 2010)

AchHist 15, 049 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413323 (Accessed: November 6, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 049 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 15, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P413323.

AchHist 15, 049 artifact entry (No. P413323). (2023, September 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413323 (Original work published 2010)

AchHist 15, 049 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413323 (Accessed: November 6, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-06]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {sep 15},
	title = {AchHist 15, 049 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P413323},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P413323},
}

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