BM 036718 (P500450)

Prayer tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 036718

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (shu-ila in obv. i)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (shu-ila in obv. i)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced	Darius1.32.--.03
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P500450
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P500450

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Babylon (mod. Bābil)
Written In
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM 036718
Accession Number	1880-06-17, 0451

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	BM.36718
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1880-0617-451
Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online (CASPo)	P500450.html

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-24 at 10:05:31	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-11-08 at 06:26:07	Lenzi, Alan	Artifact metadata	Lenzi, Alan		Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-11-02 at 17:20:56	Lenzi, Alan	Artifact metadata	Lenzi, Alan	Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:19:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-20 at 12:10:25	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2017-05-25 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Lenzi, Alan		CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“BM 036718 Artifact Entry.” (2017) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 24, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P500450.

BM 036718 artifact entry (No. P500450). (2025, December 24). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P500450 (Original work published 2017)

BM 036718 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P500450 (Accessed: April 8, 2026).

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	month = {dec 24},
	title = {BM 036718 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P500450},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P500450},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 036718 Artifact Entry.” (2017) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 24, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P500450.

BM 036718 artifact entry (No. P500450). (2025, December 24). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P500450 (Original work published 2017)

BM 036718 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P500450 (Accessed: April 8, 2026).

@misc{2025BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-08]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 24},
	title = {BM 036718 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P500450},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P500450},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/12/24/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P500450
LB  - CDLI:P500450
M1  - 2026/4/8/
TI  - BM 036718 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P500450
ER  -