AchHist 15, 063 (P521552)

Legal 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 022194

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Receipt of sacrificial beer)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal (Receipt of sacrificial beer)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced	Darius1.03.12.05
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P521552
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P521552

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 022194
Accession Number	1896-04-09, 0299

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1896-0409-299

References

primary: AchHist 15, 63

[Waerzeggers2010Borsippa] Waerzeggers, Caroline. 2010. The Ezida Temple of Borsippa. Priesthood, Cult, Archives. Achaemenid History 15. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
history: Nisaba 21, 106

[Zadok2009Nisaba21] Zadok, Ran. 2009. Catalogue of Documents from Borsippa or Related to Borsippa in the British Museum. Nisaba 21.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-30 at 17:07:29	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-02-25 at 09:50:12	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-02-21 at 11:09:02	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-09-10 at 21:32:33	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2020-10-14 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Salmi, Senja		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 063 Artifact Entry.” (2020) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 30, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P521552.

AchHist 15, 063 artifact entry (No. P521552). (2025, December 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P521552 (Original work published 2020)

AchHist 15, 063 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P521552 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 063 Artifact Entry.” (2020) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 30, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P521552.

AchHist 15, 063 artifact entry (No. P521552). (2025, December 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P521552 (Original work published 2020)

AchHist 15, 063 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P521552 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P521552},
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