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AOAT 222, 04 (P453484)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 030571

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Marriage agreement)

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): Legal > Business / Contracts (Marriage agreement)
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: AOAT 222, 04

[Roth1989AOAT222] Roth, Martha T. 1989. Babylonian Marriage Agreements : 7th-3rd Centuries B.C. Vol. 222. Alter Orient Und Altes Testament.
history: Nbk., 101

[Strassmaier1889Nbk] Strassmaier, Johann N. 1889. Inschriften von Nabuchodonosor, König von Babylon 604-561 v.Chr. von Den Thontafeln Des Britischen Museums. Germany: Verlag von E. Pfeiffer.
history: AfO 44/45 (pp. 59-100), 73, no. 1

[Wunsch1997/1998AfO44/45] Wunsch, Cornelia. 1997/1998. “Und Die Richter Berieten...: Streitfälle in Babylon Aus Der Zeit Neriglissars Und Nabonids.” Archiv Für Orientforschung 44/45: 59–100.
citation: BM Guide 1908, p. 200

[BMGuide1908] A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 1908. London: The Trustees of the British Museum.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 030571
Accession No.: 1876-11-17, 0298

Provenience

Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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Chronology

Period: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
Dates Referenced: Nebuchadnezzar2.13.08.09
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-11-28 at 19:29:15	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-11-26 at 19:26:09	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-05-27 at 08:13:53	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-05-25 at 19:18:18	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-25 at 07:37:50	Alstola, Tero	Artifact metadata	Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Ong, Matthew; Salmi, Senja	Neo Babylonian Cuneiform Corpus Project	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2024-09-21 at 18:43:04	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-26 at 09:09:00	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:39:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-20 at 12:10:25	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2013-09-13 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.30571) (BM.30571)
British Museum Collection (W_1876-1117-298) (W_1876-1117-298)

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Cite this Artifacts

“AOAT 222, 04 Artifact Entry.” (2013) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 28, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P453484.

AOAT 222, 04 artifact entry (No. P453484). (2025, November 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P453484 (Original work published 2013)

AOAT 222, 04 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P453484 (Accessed: March 1, 2026).

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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P453484},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P453484},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“AOAT 222, 04 Artifact Entry.” (2013) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 28, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P453484.

AOAT 222, 04 artifact entry (No. P453484). (2025, November 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P453484 (Original work published 2013)

AOAT 222, 04 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P453484 (Accessed: March 1, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-01]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {nov 28},
	title = {AOAT 222, 04 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P453484},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P453484},
}

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