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BM 103538 (P413387)

Legal tablet dated to the Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 103538

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Promissory notes for dates)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal (Promissory notes for dates)
Language(s): Akkadian

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Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 103538
Accession No.: 1911-04-08, 0228

Provenience

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Chronology

Period: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
Dates Referenced: Nabonidus.05.03.05
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-11-27 at 16:10:27	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2025-11-13 at 11:49:49	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-09-15 at 08:16:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-21 at 08:02:28	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2010-08-06 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Maidman, Maynard P.		CDLI	approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (172298) (172298)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.103538) (BM.103538)
The British Museum Collection (W_1911-0408-228) (W_1911-0408-228)

Notes

General Notes: -

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Cite this Artifact

“BM 103538 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 27, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P413387.

BM 103538 artifact entry (No. P413387). (2025, November 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413387 (Original work published 2010)

BM 103538 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413387 (Accessed: January 14, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P413387},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“BM 103538 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 27, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P413387.

BM 103538 artifact entry (No. P413387). (2025, November 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413387 (Original work published 2010)

BM 103538 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413387 (Accessed: January 14, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-14]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {nov 27},
	title = {BM 103538 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P413387},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P413387},
}

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PY  - 2025
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M1  - 2026/1/14/
TI  - BM 103538 artifact entry
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