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
Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 032200Period
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)Provenience
Babylon (mod. Bābil)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayLanguage(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
-Has seal impression(s)
| Genre(s) | Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts (sale of a field) |
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| Language(s) | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid (547-331 BC) |
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This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):
| Seal | Seal Number | Provenience | Period | Date |
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| CDLI Seals 026916 (composite) (P573167) | S026916 | Babylon (mod. Bābil) | Achaemenid (547-331 BC) |
| CDLI number | P405088 |
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| Permalink | https://cdli.network/entity/P405088 |
| Provenience | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
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| Collection(s) |
British Museum, London, UK |
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| Museum Number | BM 032200 |
| Accession Number | 1876-11-17, 1927 |
| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) | BM.32200 |
| British Museum Collection (BM) | W_1876-1117-1927 |
history: Nisaba 28, no. 105
history: CM 20, A, p. 59, 153, nn. 110, 311
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2025-11-28 at 17:03:20 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2025-08-26 at 09:31:41 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2025-05-27 at 13:29:00 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2025-05-22 at 13:04:22 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2025-02-07 at 19:33:29 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2025-02-03 at 15:35:51 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-08-19 at 13:19:51 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 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 |
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| 2010-04-02 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact metadata | Fitzgerald, Madeleine | CDLI | Approved |
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@misc{2025BM,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-09]},
year = {2025},
month = {nov 28},
title = {BM 032200 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P405088},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P405088},
}
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