BaAr 5 25 (P299751)

Legal tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

NBC 08392

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Uruk (mod. Warka)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (purchase of an orchard and wasteland)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

89.0 mm × 56.0 mm × 30.0 mm

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal (purchase of an orchard and wasteland)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Dates Referenced	Kandalānu.02.07.11 646 BC
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P299751
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P299751

Physical information

No fingernail impressions

Artifact type	Tablet No fingernail impressions
Dimensions	89.0 mm × 56.0 mm × 30.0 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Uruk (mod. Warka)
Written In
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum Number	NBC 08392
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Yale Babylonian Collection (YBC)	BC-011388
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	NBC.8392

References

primary: BaAr 5, 25

[Frame2013BaAr5] Frame, Grant. 2013. The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-Nāṣir : A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC. Babylonische Archive 5. Dresden: Islet.
history: Ellis TBC 1, 04 (copy)

[sec64519] N.d.
history: Brinkman and Kennedy 1986: 101, L.4

[sec64520] N.d.
citation: CBCY 1, p. 69, NBC 8392

[Beaulieu1994CBCY1] Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. 1994. Late Babylonian Texts in the Nies Babylonian Collection. Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale 1. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press.
citation: JCS 35 (pp. 1-90), L.4

[Brinkman1983JCS35] Brinkman, John A., and Douglas A. Kennedy. 1983. “Documentary Evidence for the Economic Base of Early Neo-Babylonian Society: A Survey of Dated Babylonian Economic Texts, 721-626 B.C.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1–2): 1–90.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-10-16 at 10:07:53	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-10-13 at 10:23:58	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-09-11 at 09:07:18	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-30 at 09:38:45	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-12-29 at 17:06:18	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-05-14 at 10:23:37	Jagersma, Bram	Artifact metadata	Jagersma, Bram		Jagersma, Bram	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:03:51	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-02-08 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Guerra, Dylan; Middeke-Conlin, Robert; Pace, Carl	Yale Babylonian Collection	CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“BaAr 5 25 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P299751.

BaAr 5 25 artifact entry (No. P299751). (2025, October 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P299751 (Original work published 2006)

BaAr 5 25 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P299751 (Accessed: April 29, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“BaAr 5 25 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P299751.

BaAr 5 25 artifact entry (No. P299751). (2025, October 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P299751 (Original work published 2006)

BaAr 5 25 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P299751 (Accessed: April 29, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-29]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {oct 16},
	title = {BaAr 5 25 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P299751},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P299751},
}

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