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

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

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Cite this Artifact
“BM 032039 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P480812.
BM 032039 artifact entry (No. P480812). (2025, April 16). 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: April 16, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-16]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {apr 16},
	title = {BM 032039 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480812},
}


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