BMAPT no. 22 (P497430)

Astral sciences tablet dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 041043

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

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Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • history: Ossendrijver, BMAPT, no. 22

    [Ossendrijver2012BMAPT] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences . New York : Springer.

  • history: Science 351 (2016) , 482-484 (text B)

    [Ossendrijver2016Science351] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2016. “Ancient Babylonian Astronomers Calculated Jupiter’s Position from the Area under a Time- Velocity Graph,” Science, 351 (6272): 482–84.

  • history: JNES 76 (pp. 231-247), 234, text D

    [Ossendrijver2017JNES76] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2017. “New Results on a Babylonian Scheme for Jupiter’s Motion along the Zodiac.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76: 231–47.

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  • Museum No.: BM 041043
  • Accession No.: 1881-04-28, 0590

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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-04-27 at 11:34:01 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-11-08 at 10:14:57 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-11-07 at 14:20:52 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-10-20 at 19:31:39 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
2023-01-20 at 12:10:25 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2016-01-28 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BMAPT No. 22 Artifact Entry.” (2016) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 27, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P497430.
BMAPT no. 22 artifact entry (No. P497430). (2025, April 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P497430 (Original work published 2016)
BMAPT no. 22 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P497430 (Accessed: May 9, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-09]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {apr 27},
	title = {BMAPT no. 22 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P497430},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P497430},
}


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