AchHist 15, 089 (P521576)

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 029110

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Work contract for the grinding of sacrificial flour)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Work contract for the grinding of sacrificial flour)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced	Darius1.12.03.15
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P521576
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P521576

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 029110
Accession Number	1898-11-12, 0286

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1898-1112-286

References

primary: AchHist 15, 89

[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, 767

[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
2025-02-23 at 11:30:35	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, 089 Artifact Entry.” (2020) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 23, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P521576.

AchHist 15, 089 artifact entry (No. P521576). (2025, February 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P521576 (Original work published 2020)

AchHist 15, 089 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P521576 (Accessed: October 16, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 089 Artifact Entry.” (2020) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 23, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P521576.

AchHist 15, 089 artifact entry (No. P521576). (2025, February 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P521576 (Original work published 2020)

AchHist 15, 089 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P521576 (Accessed: October 16, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P521576},
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