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Nbk. 013 (P550760)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 031077

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Babylon (mod. Bābil)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts (Purchase)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Business / Contracts > Purchase and sale contracts (Purchase)
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: Nbk., 013

[Strassmaier1889Nbk] Strassmaier, Johann N. 1889. Inschriften von Nabuchodonosor, König von Babylon 604-561 v.Chr. von Den Thontafeln Des Britischen Museums. Germany: Verlag von E. Pfeiffer.
history: Nebukadnezar III/IV, p. 100

[Lorenz2008NebukadnezarIII/IV] Lorenz, Jürgen. 2008. Nebukadnezar III/IV : Die Politischen Wirren Nach Dem Tod Des Kambyses Im Spiegel Der Keilschrifttexte. Dresden : ISLET-Verlag.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 031077
Accession No.: 1876-11-17, 0804

Provenience

Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Period Comments:
Nbk IV
Dates Referenced: Nebuchadnezzar4.01.06.14
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-11-28 at 17:03:20	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-08-08 at 13:36:31	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-06-03 at 14:33:39	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-06-03 at 14:32:39	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-05-26 at 15:29:15	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-12-09 at 10:17:13	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-12-06 at 17:11:56	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-25 at 13:32:53	Alstola, Tero	Artifact metadata	Alstola, Tero; Leinonen, Linda; Ong, Matthew; Salmi, Senja	Neo Babylonian Cuneiform Corpus Project	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved

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Cite this Artifacts

“Nbk. 013 Artifact Entry.” (2024) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 28, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P550760.

Nbk. 013 artifact entry (No. P550760). (2025, November 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P550760 (Original work published 2024)

Nbk. 013 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P550760 (Accessed: April 2, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P550760},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“Nbk. 013 Artifact Entry.” (2024) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 28, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P550760.

Nbk. 013 artifact entry (No. P550760). (2025, November 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P550760 (Original work published 2024)

Nbk. 013 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P550760 (Accessed: April 2, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-02]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {nov 28},
	title = {Nbk. 013 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P550760},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P550760},
}

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