JavaScript is disabled or not supported in your browser. If possible, enable it for a better experience.

BM 029355 (P559434)

Administrative tablet excavated in Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud), dated to the Achaemenid (547-331 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 029355

Period

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Has seal impression(s)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
Artifact Preservation:
Condition Description:
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
Nisaba 28, seal no. A138
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: Nisaba 21, 907

[Zadok2009Nisaba21] Zadok, Ran. 2009. Catalogue of Documents from Borsippa or Related to Borsippa in the British Museum. Nisaba 21.
history: Nisaba 28, no. 185

[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.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 029355
Accession No.: 1898-11-12, 0531

Provenience

Provenience: Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
Dates Referenced: Cyrus2.03.12.13
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period:

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2025-12-15 at 16:07:59	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2025-08-28 at 13:31:45	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2025-08-21 at 15:03:27	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2025-04-25 at 10:44:10	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2025-03-05 at 09:43:21	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2025-02-23 at 16:47:46	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved

External Resources

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

There is no external resource for this artifact yet.

Seals

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

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

Notes

General Notes: -

CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 029355 Artifact Entry.” (2025) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 15, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P559434.

BM 029355 artifact entry (No. P559434). (2025, December 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P559434 (Original work published 2025)

BM 029355 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P559434 (Accessed: December 31, 2025).

@misc{2025BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-31]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 15},
	title = {BM 029355 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P559434},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P559434},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/12/15/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P559434
LB  - CDLI:P559434
M1  - 2025/12/31/
TI  - BM 029355 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P559434
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 029355 Artifact Entry.” (2025) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 15, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P559434.

BM 029355 artifact entry (No. P559434). (2025, December 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P559434 (Original work published 2025)

BM 029355 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P559434 (Accessed: December 31, 2025).

@misc{2025BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-31]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {dec 15},
	title = {BM 029355 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P559434},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P559434},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/12/15/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P559434
LB  - CDLI:P559434
M1  - 2025/12/31/
TI  - BM 029355 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P559434
ER  -