Dar. 399 (P512070)
Legal tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UKMetadata / catalogue
Flat catalogue
As CSV As TSVExpanded catalogue
As JSONLinked catalogue
As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XMLText / annotations
Text data
Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 077391Period
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)Provenience
Babylon (mod. Bābil)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Legal (promissory note promissory note for silver with interest)Language(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
40.0 mm × 53.0 mm × 18.0 mm
- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
- Measurements (mm): 40.0 high × 53.0 wide × 18.0 thick
- Weight:
- Artifact Preservation:
- Condition Description:
- Join Information:
- Seal no.:
- Seal information:
- Artifact comments:
-
primary: Dar., 399
[Strassmaier1892-1897Darius] Strassmaier, Johann N. 1892-1897. Inschriften von Darius, König von Babylon (521-485 v. Chr.) von Den Thontafeln Des Britischen Museums. Leipzig : E. Pfeiffer.
-
history: Nappahu, 228a
[Baker2004Nappahu] Baker, Heather D. 2004. The Archive of the Nappahu Family. Vol. 30. Archiv Für Orientforschung. Beiheft. Wien: Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien.
- Composite No.:
- Museum No.: BM 077391
- Accession No.: 1884-02-11, 0127
- Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
- Elevation:
- Stratigraphic Level:
- Excavation No:
- Findspot Square:
- Findspot Comments:
- Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
- Dates Referenced: Darius1.15.03.25
- Alternative Years:
- Date Comments:
- Accounting Period:
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-07 at 12:32:55 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
 |
|
| 2024-06-19 at 09:42:05 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
|
|
| 2023-09-10 at 21:32:33 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
|
| 2018-08-09 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact metadata | Baker, Heather D. | CDLI | Approved |
|
Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- British Museum Collection (W_1884-0211-127) (W_1884-0211-127)
Cite this Artifacts
@misc{2024Dar,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-23]},
year = {2024},
month = {sep 7},
title = {Dar. 399 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P512070},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P512070},
}
TY - ELEC DA - 2024/9/7/ PY - 2024 ID - P512070 LB - CDLI:P512070 M1 - 2026/2/23/ TI - Dar. 399 artifact entry UR - https://cdli.earth/P512070 ER -