BE 08/1, 080 (P259975)

Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 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 03602

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (8x1x8x2 lines)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal (8x1x8x2 lines)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced	Cambyses2.01.08.15 ?
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P259975
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P259975

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment small chips 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 03602
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	578769
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.3602

References

primary: BE 8/1, 080

[Clay1908BE8/1] Clay, Albert Tobias. 1908. Legal and Commercial Transactions. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts, vol. 8/1. Philadelphia.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-19 at 10:43:11	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-12-13 at 20:25:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
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 08/1, 080 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P259975.

BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry (No. P259975). (2025, December 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P259975 (Original work published 2005)

BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P259975 (Accessed: October 13, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-13]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 19},
	title = {BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P259975},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P259975},
}

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ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BE 08/1, 080 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P259975.

BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry (No. P259975). (2025, December 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P259975 (Original work published 2005)

BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P259975 (Accessed: October 13, 2026).

@misc{2025BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-13]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 19},
	title = {BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P259975},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P259975},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/12/19/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P259975
LB  - CDLI:P259975
M1  - 2026/10/13/
TI  - BE 08/1, 080 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P259975
ER  -