BM 017626 (P500437)

Legal tablet excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), 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 017626

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Middle Babylonian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • history: Finkel & Taylor, Cuneiform, Fig. 32

    [FinkelTaylor2015] Finkel, Irving L., and Jonathan Taylor. 2015. Cuneiform. British Museum.

  • citation: CHANE 51, 34, 116

    [Tenney2011-CZT5VQ7I] Tenney, Jonathan S. 2011. Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society: Servile Laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th Centuries B. C. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 51. Leiden - Boston: Brill.

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  • Museum No.: BM 017626
  • Accession No.: 1894-10-13, 0030

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-03-02 at 16:34:03 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2025-01-03 at 17:24:09 de Ridder, Jacob Jan Artifact de Ridder, Jacob Jan de Ridder, Jacob Jan approved View
2025-01-03 at 17:19:44 de Ridder, Jacob Jan Artifact de Ridder, Jacob Jan de Ridder, Jacob Jan approved View
2024-06-01 at 15:52:37 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21 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
2017-04-10 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Firth, Richard CDLI approved View

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This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal Provenience Period Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) - -

General Notes: -
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Cite this Artifact
“BM 017626 Artifact Entry.” (2017) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 2, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P500437.
BM 017626 artifact entry (No. P500437). (2025, March 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P500437 (Original work published 2017)
BM 017626 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P500437 (Accessed: May 13, 2025).
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	title = {BM 017626 artifact entry},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P500437},
}


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