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BM 032039 (P480812)

Incantation 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 032039

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Incantation

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet Artifact type comments:
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Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Ritual and liturgical > Incantation
Language(s): Akkadian

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Identifiers

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Museum No.: BM 032039
Accession No.: 1876-11-17, 1766

Provenience

Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil) [uncertain]
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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-05-27 at 13:29:00	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-04-16 at 09:34:19	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-11-02 at 17:20:56	Lenzi, Alan	Artifact metadata	Lenzi, Alan	Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:19:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-07-05 at 14:39:36	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-19 at 09:29:48	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		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
2015-06-18 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI	Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals	CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.32039) (BM.32039)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila-Prayers Online (ORACC) (P480812) (P480812)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P480812) (P480812)
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals (Q005093) (Q005093)
British Museum Collection (W_1876-1117-1766) (W_1876-1117-1766)
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online (P480812.html) (P480812.html)

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 032039 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 27, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P480812.

BM 032039 artifact entry (No. P480812). (2025, May 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480812 (Original work published 2015)

BM 032039 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480812 (Accessed: February 9, 2026).

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	year = {2025},
	month = {may 27},
	title = {BM 032039 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 032039 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 27, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P480812.

BM 032039 artifact entry (No. P480812). (2025, May 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480812 (Original work published 2015)

BM 032039 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480812 (Accessed: February 9, 2026).

@misc{2025BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-09]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {may 27},
	title = {BM 032039 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
}

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DA  - 2025/5/27/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P480812
LB  - CDLI:P480812
M1  - 2026/2/9/
TI  - BM 032039 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P480812
ER  -