The CDLI has moved to a new server

Dear user, the CDLI is now located at https://cdli.earth. Please update your bookmarks and use this new domain name in print.

BE 08/1, 106 (P453430)

Legal tablet excavated in Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history
Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

EAH 00216

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Arrangements concerning the oxherd prebend)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

53.0 mm × 70.0 mm × 23.0 mm

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm): 53.0 high × 70.0 wide × 23.0 thick
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description: Inscr. 11(o.)+ 1(lo.e.) +12(r.) + 1(u.e.) = 25 li.
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Legal (Arrangements concerning the oxherd prebend)
  • Language(s): Akkadian

  • primary: BE 8/1, 106

    [Clay1908BE8/1] Clay, Albert T. 1908. Legal and Commercial Transactions. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts, vol. 8/1. Philadelphia.

  • history: Dandamaev, Slavery, p. 474f.

    [Dandamaev1984slavery] Dandamayev, Muhammad A. 1984. Slavery in Babylonia, from Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 B.C.). DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press.

  • history: AchHist 15, 180

    [Waerzeggers2010Borsippa] Waerzeggers, Caroline. 2010. The Ezida Temple of Borsippa. Priesthood, Cult, Archives. Achaemenid History 15. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: EAH 00216
  • Accession No.:

  • Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Darius1.05.11.02
  • Alternative Years:
  • Date Comments:
  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-01-09 at 15:05:50 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-20 at 12:10:25 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2013-08-27 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Salmi, Senja CDLI approved View

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

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“BE 08/1, 106 Artifact Entry.” (2013) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). January 9, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P453430.
BE 08/1, 106 artifact entry (No. P453430). (2025, January 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P453430 (Original work published 2013)
BE 08/1, 106 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P453430 (Accessed: April 23, 2025).
@misc{2025BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-23]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {jan 9},
	title = {BE 08/1, 106 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P453430},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P453430},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/1/9/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P453430
LB  - CDLI:P453430
M1  - 2025/4/23/
TI  - BE 08/1, 106 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P453430
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.