BM 053806 (P480874)

Prayer tablet excavated in Dilbat (mod. Deilam), 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 053806

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Dilbat (mod. Deilam)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

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  • Provenience: Dilbat (mod. Deilam)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-12-07 at 09:32:12 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-08-19 at 13:27:14 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
2023-07-05 at 14:39:36 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
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 View
2015-06-18 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals CDLI Approved View

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 053806 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P480874.
BM 053806 artifact entry (No. P480874). (2024, December 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480874 (Original work published 2015)
BM 053806 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480874 (Accessed: February 9, 2026).
@misc{2024BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-09]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {dec 7},
	title = {BM 053806 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480874},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480874},
}

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M1  - 2026/2/9/
TI  - BM 053806 artifact entry
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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 053806 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P480874.
BM 053806 artifact entry (No. P480874). (2024, December 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P480874 (Original work published 2015)
BM 053806 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P480874 (Accessed: February 9, 2026).
@misc{2024BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-09]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {dec 7},
	title = {BM 053806 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P480874},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P480874},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/12/7/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P480874
LB  - CDLI:P480874
M1  - 2026/2/9/
TI  - BM 053806 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P480874
ER  - 
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