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BM 040471 (P507715)

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

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 040471

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts

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Measurements

Has seal impression(s)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts
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Related publications

history: Nisaba 28, no. 134

[Altavilla2016Nisaba28] Altavilla, Stefania, and Christopher B. F. Walker. 2016. Late Babylonian Seal Impressions on Tablets in the British Museum: Part 2: Babylon and Its Vicinity. Nisaba 28. Messina : Di.Sc.A.M.
history: BM Guide 1908, p. 217

[BMGuide1908] A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 1908. London: The Trustees of the British Museum.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 040471
Accession No.:

Provenience

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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced: Darius1.25.--.--
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2026-01-19 at 14:41:06	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-12-27 at 20:06:24	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-12-01 at 14:29:37	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-02-07 at 19:33:29	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-02-04 at 11:23:22	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2017-12-24 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

British Museum Collection (W_1881-0428-10) (W_1881-0428-10)

Seals

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

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

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 040471 Artifact Entry.” (2017) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). January 19, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P507715.

BM 040471 artifact entry (No. P507715). (2026, January 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P507715 (Original work published 2017)

BM 040471 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P507715 (Accessed: January 28, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-28]},
	year = {2026},
	month = {jan 19},
	title = {BM 040471 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P507715},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P507715},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 040471 Artifact Entry.” (2017) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). January 19, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P507715.

BM 040471 artifact entry (No. P507715). (2026, January 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P507715 (Original work published 2017)

BM 040471 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P507715 (Accessed: January 28, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-28]},
	year = {2026},
	month = {jan 19},
	title = {BM 040471 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P507715},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P507715},
}

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PY  - 2026
ID  - P507715
LB  - CDLI:P507715
M1  - 2026/1/28/
TI  - BM 040471 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P507715
ER  -