BE 15, 021 (P259824)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 03450

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (List of payments; ruled; 24x1x20 lines)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Administrative (List of payments; ruled; 24x1x20 lines)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Dates Referenced	-/VIB/8
Accounting Period

Record

BE 15, 021 matches the photo of CBS 3450, however, BE 15, 177 is also listed as CBS 3450 although it is clearly a different tablet.

CDLI number	P259824
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P259824

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment lo. l. & u. r. cor + obv bott. wanting

Provenance

Provenience	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 03450
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	578637
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.3450

References

primary: BE 15, 021

[Clay1906BE15] Clay, Albert Tobias. 1906. Documents from the Archives of Nippur Dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts, vol. 15. http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14894.pdf.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status	Action
2023-01-19 at 10:20:17	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“BE 15, 021 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P259824.

BE 15, 021 artifact entry (No. P259824). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P259824 (Original work published 2005)

BE 15, 021 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P259824 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P259824},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“BE 15, 021 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P259824.

BE 15, 021 artifact entry (No. P259824). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P259824 (Original work published 2005)

BE 15, 021 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P259824 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

@misc{2023BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {BE 15, 021 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P259824},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P259824},
}

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DA  - 2023/2/1/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P259824
LB  - CDLI:P259824
M1  - 2026/10/29/
TI  - BE 15, 021 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P259824
ER  -