BMAPT no. 40 (P497432)
Astral sciences tablet excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 082824 + BM 099697 + BM 099742Period
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)Provenience
Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayLanguage(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
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obverse
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1'. [...] x x x x [...]
2'. [...] _usz#?_ x x x [...] x _usz 12#? sag-ki gal#_-[tu4 ...]
3'. [...] x _sag-ki tur_-tu4 _e#?_ x [x x x] 30#? uz#-zab-bil _igi 2.50?_ [...]
4'. [...] _ta u4-mesz-am3 ki u4 x u4#_-mu# sza2 _ki_ s,al#-pi _dab_-qa tam-mar 32# [...]
5'. [...] re-hi 27? 28 _ki u4#_-ka _tab_-ma _u4_-me _ki#_ s,al#-pi# _dab_-qa tam-mar# [...]
6'. [...] ki#-i _tak4_ 9.30# ana _ugu 10.50 tab_-ma 1/2(disz)-szu2 _gesz_-ma _a-ra2 32 u4#-[mesz du_-ma 5.25.20 ...]
7'. [...] x x _bu-am3_ 10 tu!-szah2-hi-zu _pi an# nu tuku 50_ ana tar-s,a x [...]
8'. [...] x sza2 _u4-mesz_ ina _1.3 me e_ ina _2 usz_ ina _2.12 szu2#_ ki-s,ir _an_ x [...]
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- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- Artifact Preservation: 50%
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- Genre(s): Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences
- Language(s): Akkadian
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history: Ossendrijver, BMAPT, no. 40
[Ossendrijver2012BMAPT] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences . New York : Springer.
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history: Science 351 (2016) , 482-484 (text E)
[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 082824 + BM 099697 + BM 099742
- Accession No.: 1883-01-21, 2059 + 1883-01-21, 2104 + 1883-09-28, 0030
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Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) Provenience Comments:
BM catalogue: or Babylon?
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- Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
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| 2024-11-08 at 10:16:30 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2024-11-07 at 14:20:52 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2024-10-20 at 19:31:39 | Firth, Richard | Artifact, Other Entity | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2023-09-09 at 18:41:45 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |
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| 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 |
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| 2016-03-13 at 11:13:37 | Englund, Robert K. | Atf | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | approved |
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| 2016-01-28 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | CDLI | CDLI | approved |
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