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Nbk. 175 (P550889)

Legal tablet excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), dated to the Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 092754

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Sale of a slave girl)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal (Sale of a slave girl)
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: Nbk., 175

[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: Dandamaev, Slavery, no. 3, p. 372f.

[Dandamaev1984slavery] Dandamayev, Muhammad A. 1984. Slavery in Babylonia, from Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 B.C.). DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press.

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Museum No.: BM 092754
Accession No.: 1883-01-18 AH, 0280

Provenience

Provenience: Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
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Chronology

Period: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
Dates Referenced: Nebuchadnezzar2.27.06.25
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-02 at 14:30:38	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-01-10 at 15:32:42	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. 175 Artifact Entry.” (2024) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 2, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P550889.

Nbk. 175 artifact entry (No. P550889). (2025, December 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P550889 (Original work published 2024)

Nbk. 175 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P550889 (Accessed: January 23, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-23]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 2},
	title = {Nbk. 175 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P550889},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P550889},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“Nbk. 175 Artifact Entry.” (2024) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 2, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P550889.

Nbk. 175 artifact entry (No. P550889). (2025, December 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P550889 (Original work published 2024)

Nbk. 175 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P550889 (Accessed: January 23, 2026).

@misc{2025Nbk,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-23]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 2},
	title = {Nbk. 175 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P550889},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P550889},
}

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DA  - 2025/12/2/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P550889
LB  - CDLI:P550889
M1  - 2026/1/23/
TI  - Nbk. 175 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P550889
ER  -