Reading the Past 044 (P345971)

Wisdom or proverb tablet dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Photo

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 104096

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Wisdom or proverb (Proverb)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Literary > Wisdom or proverb (Proverb)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P345971
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P345971

Physical information

lentil

Artifact type	Tablet lentil
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM 104096
Accession Number	1911-04-08, 0786

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	BM.104096
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P345971
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1911-0408-786

References

primary: Reading the Past, 044

[Walker1990ReadingthePast] Walker, Christopher B. F. 1990. “Cuneiform.” Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet.
history: Fs Westenholz (pp. 9-28), 017

[Alster2011FsWestenholz] Alster, Bendt. 2011. “Some New Sumerian Proverbs.” In Akkade Is King : A Collection of Papers by Friends and Colleagues Presented to Aage Westenholz on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday 15th of May 2009, 118:9–28. PIHANS. Uitgaven van Het Nederlands Instituut Voor Het Nabije Oosten Te Leiden. Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
history: RA 99, p.13-38, p. 35

[Taylor2005proverb] Taylor, Jonathan. 2005. “The Sumerian Proverb Collections.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 99: 13–38.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-31 at 18:12:13	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-07 at 14:08:27	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-03 at 12:59:20	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:39:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-15 at 20:34:30	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-12-02 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Liu Changyu		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“Reading the Past 044 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 31, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P345971.

Reading the Past 044 artifact entry (No. P345971). (2024, July 31). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P345971 (Original work published 2006)

Reading the Past 044 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P345971 (Accessed: October 21, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“Reading the Past 044 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 31, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P345971.

Reading the Past 044 artifact entry (No. P345971). (2024, July 31). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P345971 (Original work published 2006)

Reading the Past 044 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P345971 (Accessed: October 21, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P345971},
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