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JCS 37, 243, 74A (P269870)

Official or display brick excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 15345

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

Artifact Type

Brick

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Official or display (witness Royal Inscription; Cyrus B; dup:CBS15348; cf.Walker, CBI #166; *number not given in the old catalog;)

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Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Brick
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Official or display (witness Royal Inscription; Cyrus B; dup:CBS15348; cf.Walker, CBI #166; *number not given in the old catalog;)
Language(s):

Related publications

primary: JCS 37 (pp. 229-248), 243, 74A

[Behrens1985JCS37] Behrens, Hermann. 1985. “Die Backsteine Mit Keilinschriften Im University Museum.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 37 (2): 229–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1359869.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: CBS 15345
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Provenience

Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
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Excavation No: U —
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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced: Cyrus2.00.00.00 ?
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-18 at 19:39:23	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-07 at 17:55:43	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-01 at 18:45:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-01 at 18:36:28	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15	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	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Penn Museum (303418) (303418)
Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.15345) (CBS.15345)

Composites

This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite	Score
Dummy composite "needed" (P546835)	View the score

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“JCS 37, 243, 74A Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 18, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P269870.

JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry (No. P269870). (2025, December 18). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P269870 (Original work published 2005)

JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P269870 (Accessed: February 6, 2026).

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	year = {2025},
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	title = {JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P269870},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P269870},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“JCS 37, 243, 74A Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 18, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P269870.

JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry (No. P269870). (2025, December 18). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P269870 (Original work published 2005)

JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P269870 (Accessed: February 6, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-06]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 18},
	title = {JCS 37, 243, 74A artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P269870},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P269870},
}

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