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AchHist 15, 017 (P202111)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 102033

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 Messenger tablet)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: AchHist 15, 17

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

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 102033
Accession No.: 1905-10-13, 0048

Provenience

Provenience: Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)
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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced: Cyrus.09.01.24
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-28 at 11:26:12	Alstola, Tero	Artifact	Alstola, Tero		Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Salmi, Senja		CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (057226) (057226)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.102033) (BM.102033)
The British Museum Collection (W_1905-1113-58) (W_1905-1113-58)

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Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 017 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P202111.

AchHist 15, 017 artifact entry (No. P202111). (2024, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P202111 (Original work published 2002)

AchHist 15, 017 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P202111 (Accessed: December 8, 2025).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P202111},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“AchHist 15, 017 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P202111.

AchHist 15, 017 artifact entry (No. P202111). (2024, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P202111 (Original work published 2002)

AchHist 15, 017 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P202111 (Accessed: December 8, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 28},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P202111},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P202111},
}

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