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Halpern & Hobson, Law, 062-063, no. 03 (P491389)

Legal tablet excavated in Gasur/Nuzi (mod. Yorgan Tepe), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 026242

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

Gasur/Nuzi (mod. Yorgan Tepe)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Trial record)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: Halpern & Hobson, Law, p.42-89, p. 62-63, no. 3

    [Maidman1993tablets] Maidman, Maynard P. 1993. “Some Late Bronze Age Legal Tablets from the British Museum: Problems of Context and Meaning.” In Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World, edited by Baruch Halpern and Deborah W. Hobson, 42–89. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

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  • Museum No.: BM 026242
  • Accession No.: 1898-05-14, 0060

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:27:14 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
2015-11-08 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“Halpern & Hobson, Law, 062-063, No. 03 Artifact Entry.” (2015) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P491389.
Halpern & Hobson, Law, 062-063, no. 03 artifact entry (No. P491389). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P491389 (Original work published 2015)
Halpern & Hobson, Law, 062-063, no. 03 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P491389 (Accessed: April 18, 2025).
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	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {Halpern & {Hobson}, {Law}, 062-063, no. 03 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P491389},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P491389},
}


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