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BM 033377 (P404986)

Purchase and sale contracts tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 033377

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts
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Identifiers

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Museum No.: BM 033377
Accession No.: Rm 3, 054

Provenience

Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced: Cambyses2.--.06.26
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-19 at 17:26:56	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-11-28 at 17:07:04	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-01-21 at 08:02:28	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2010-04-02 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Fitzgerald, Madeleine		CDLI	Approved

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

Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.33377) (BM.33377)

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 033377 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P404986.

BM 033377 artifact entry (No. P404986). (2025, December 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P404986 (Original work published 2010)

BM 033377 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P404986 (Accessed: March 20, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P404986},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 033377 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P404986.

BM 033377 artifact entry (No. P404986). (2025, December 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P404986 (Original work published 2010)

BM 033377 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P404986 (Accessed: March 20, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-20]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 19},
	title = {BM 033377 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P404986},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P404986},
}

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PY  - 2025
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M1  - 2026/3/20/
TI  - BM 033377 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P404986
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