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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 104096

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

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Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Wisdom or proverb (Proverb)

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  • Artifact type: Tablet Artifact type comments:

    lentil

  • Material: Clay
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    lentil

  • 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.

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  • Museum No.: BM 104096
  • Accession No.: 1911-04-08, 0786

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

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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: May 31, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-31]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 31},
	title = {Reading the {Past} 044 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P345971},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P345971},
}


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