BM 035915 (P497431)

Astral sciences tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), 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 035915

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
  beginning broken
1'. [...] x x x x [...]
2'. [... 10].45 ana _ugu ki igi# [tab_-ma ...]
3'. [...] ki#-ma-a ana s,al-pi _dab_ [...]
4'. [... 10.45 szu]-u2# tam-mar ki-ma _bar_-szu2 [...]
5'. [... _9.30] sag-ki_ t,e-ri-tu2 _a.ra2# [9.30 du_-ma 1.30.15 ...]
6'. [...] _du#?_ ki-ma mu-szam-sza2 x [...]
7'. [...] 1#.30.15# ana _ugu_ x [...]
8'. [...] _du#?_ al-la _dab#?_ [...]
9'. [...] x ana# s,al-pi [...]
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Consult sign list of Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Consult word list of Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: 50%
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  • history: Science 351 (2016) , 482-484 (text D)

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

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  • Museum No.: BM 035915
  • Accession No.: Sp 3, 0451

  • Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-20 at 19:31:39 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
2016-03-13 at 11:13:37 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2016-01-28 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BM 035915 Artifact Entry.” (2016) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 20, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P497431.
BM 035915 artifact entry (No. P497431). (2024, October 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P497431 (Original work published 2016)
BM 035915 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P497431 (Accessed: May 6, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-06]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 20},
	title = {BM 035915 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P497431},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P497431},
}


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