BM 044144 (P480855)

Prayer 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 044144

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) [uncertain]

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Material: Clay
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  • Museum No.: BM 044144
  • Accession No.: 1881-07-01, 1905

  • Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil) [uncertain]
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan 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
2023-01-20 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 044144 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P480855.
BM 044144 artifact entry (No. P480855). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480855 (Original work published 2015)
BM 044144 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480855 (Accessed: May 12, 2025).
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	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 044144 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480855},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480855},
}


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