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BE 10, 099 (P261696)

Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 05503

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Murashu; lease of lands for 3 years, 3 lines of Aramaic docket incised on Rev., seal impressions, (Obv)12x(Rev)6 lines, 8x10.3x3.6)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: LLo. corner missing
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  • Genre(s): Legal (Murashu; lease of lands for 3 years, 3 lines of Aramaic docket incised on Rev., seal impressions, (Obv)12x(Rev)6 lines, 8x10.3x3.6)
  • Language(s): Akkadian

  • primary: BE 10, 099

    [Clay1904BE10] Clay, Albert T. 1904. Business Documents of Marashu Sons of Nippur Dated in the Reign of Darius II (424-404 B.C.). The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts, vol. 10.

  • history: Clay Aramaic Endorsements, pp.295, 310f #29

    [Clay1908AramaicEndorsements] Clay, Albert T. 1908. “Aramaic Endorsements on the Documents of the Murašu Sons.” In Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William Rainey Harper. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

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  • history: PBS 2/1, pl.120#29(Aram.only)

    [Clay1912PBS2/1] Clay, Albert T. 1912. Business Documents of Murashu Sons of Nippur Dated in the Reign of Darius II. Publications of the Babylonian Section 2/1. University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 05503
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Darius2.18/II/5
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-18 at 19:33:33 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-23 at 18:45:51 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:20:17 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2022-11-09 at 23:06:30 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Lafont, Bertrand; Rattenborg, Rune Achemenet Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô Penn Museum CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BE 10, 099 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 18, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P261696.
BE 10, 099 artifact entry (No. P261696). (2024, September 18). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P261696 (Original work published 2005)
BE 10, 099 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P261696 (Accessed: April 24, 2025).
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	month = {sep 18},
	title = {BE 10, 099 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P261696},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P261696},
}


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