BM 045419 (P480857)

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 045419

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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  • history: AMD 8/1, pl. 48

    [Abusch2011AMD8/1] Abusch, Tzvi, and Daniel Schwemer. 2011. Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Volume 1. Vol. 8/1. Ancient Magic and Divination. Leiden ; Boston : Brill.

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  • Museum No.: BM 045419
  • Accession No.: 1881-07-01, 3180

  • Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil) [uncertain] Provenience Comments:

    Borsippa ?

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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-04-25 at 09:12:37 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-15 at 13:39:18 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard 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
2023-01-20 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 045419 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 25, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P480857.
BM 045419 artifact entry (No. P480857). (2025, April 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480857 (Original work published 2015)
BM 045419 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480857 (Accessed: May 16, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-16]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {apr 25},
	title = {BM 045419 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480857},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480857},
}


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