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BMS 26 (P398750)

Prayer tablet excavated in Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM —

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Ritual and liturgical > Prayer
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: BMS, 26

[King1896BMS] King, Leonard W. 1896. Babylonian Magic and Sorcery. Luzac & Co.

Identifiers

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Museum No.: BM —
Accession No.: K 10550

Provenience

Provenience: Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
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Chronology

Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-05-25 at 15:57:43	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-11-02 at 17:20:56	Lenzi, Alan	Artifact	Lenzi, Alan	Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2023-08-19 at 13:10:32	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-07-05 at 19:07:10	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-06-15 at 20:38:30	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-21 at 07:56:19	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2010-02-17 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Michalowski, Piotr	The British Museum Collection	CDLI	approved

External Resources

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

Electronic Babylonian Library (K.10550) (K.10550)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila-Prayers Online (ORACC) (P398750) (P398750)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P398750) (P398750)
Ashurbanipal Library Project (P398750) (P398750)
The British Museum Collection (W_K-10550) (W_K-10550)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online (P398750.html) (P398750.html)

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Cite this Artifact

“BMS 26 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P398750.

BMS 26 artifact entry (No. P398750). (2024, May 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P398750 (Original work published 2010)

BMS 26 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P398750 (Accessed: January 13, 2026).

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	month = {may 25},
	title = {BMS 26 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P398750},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P398750},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“BMS 26 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P398750.

BMS 26 artifact entry (No. P398750). (2024, May 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P398750 (Original work published 2010)

BMS 26 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P398750 (Accessed: January 13, 2026).

@misc{2024BMS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {may 25},
	title = {BMS 26 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P398750},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P398750},
}

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