ACT 0504 (P481630)

Astral sciences tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 037236

Period

Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences (mars)

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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    Astronomical; tables for Mars for (at least) 102 years

  • primary: ACT, 0504

    [Neugebauer1955ACT] Neugebauer, Otto E. 1955. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts.

  • history: JCS 20 (pp. 1-33), 10, 24-25, 33, Text J

    [Aaboe1966JCS20] Aaboe, Asger, and Abraham J. Sachs. 1966. “Some Dateless Computed Lists of Longitudes of Characteristic Planetary Phenomena from the Late-Babylonian Period.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 20 (1): 1–33.

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  • Museum No.: BM 037236
  • Accession No.: 1880-06-17, 0990

  • Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-11-01 at 13:33:05 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-11-01 at 12:06:51 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-10-20 at 09:15:11 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-08-19 at 13:10:32 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg 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
2015-09-08 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Firth, Richard CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“ACT 0504 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 1, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P481630.
ACT 0504 artifact entry (No. P481630). (2024, November 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P481630 (Original work published 2015)
ACT 0504 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P481630 (Accessed: May 4, 2025).
@misc{2024ACT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-04]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {nov 1},
	title = {ACT 0504 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P481630},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P481630},
}


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