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
Museum Collection(s)
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
CBS 15348Period
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)Provenience
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)Artifact Type
BrickMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Official or display (witness Royal Inscription; Cyrus B; dup:CBS15348; cf.Walker, CBI #166; number not given in the old catalog;)Language(s)
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-Witness
| Genre(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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| Language(s) |
| Period | Achaemenid (547-331 BC) |
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| Dates Referenced | Cyrus2.00.00.00 ? |
| Accounting Period |
This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):
| Composite | Composite Number | Score |
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| Dummy composite "needed" (P546835) | needed | View the score |
| CDLI number | P269872 |
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| Permalink | https://cdli.network/entity/P269872 |
| Provenience | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
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| Written In | |
| Excavation Number | U — |
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| Elevation |
| Collection(s) |
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Museum Number | CBS 15348 |
| Accession Number |
| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| Penn Museum (Penn) | 106677 |
| Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) | CBS.15348 |
primary: JCS 37 (pp. 229-248), 243, 74B
history: MJ 16 (pp. 216-306), p.306
(photo)
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2025-12-18 at 19:39:23 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-10-07 at 17:55:43 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-10-04 at 10:10:58 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-06-01 at 18:45:26 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-06-01 at 18:36:28 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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@misc{2025JCS,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-26]},
year = {2025},
month = {dec 18},
title = {JCS 37, 243, 74B artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P269872},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P269872},
}
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