BM 040570 (P559863)

Legal tablet excavated in Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 040570

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: Nisaba 21, 1084

    [Zadok2009Nisaba21] Zadok, Ran. 2009. Catalogue of Documents from Borsippa or Related to Borsippa in the British Museum. Nisaba 21.

  • history: JCS 35 (pp. 1-90), p. 29, K.57

    [Brinkman1983evidence] Brinkman, John A., and Douglas A. Kennedy. 1983. “Documentary Evidence for the Economic Base of Early Neo-Babylonian Society: A Survey of Dated Babylonian Economic Texts, 721-626 B.C.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1–2): 1–90.

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  • Museum No.: BM 040570
  • Accession No.: 1881-04-28, 0112

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-05-19 at 09:15:41 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2025-05-18 at 18:28:48 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2025-05-18 at 13:42:23 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2025-02-26 at 09:14:29 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BM 040570 Artifact Entry.” (2025) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). May 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P559863.
BM 040570 artifact entry (No. P559863). (2025, May 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P559863 (Original work published 2025)
BM 040570 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P559863 (Accessed: June 11, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P559863},
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