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Artifact

Period

2 Pre-Writing (ca. 8500-3500 BC)

3 Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)

1 Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

1 Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)

343 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

294 Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

25 Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)

1 Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

101 No value

Material

2 Egyptian blue

626 clay

2 clay > ceramic

54 faience

1 glass

48 stone

1 stone > metamorphic rock > marble

1 stone > metamorphic rock > schist

12 stone > metamorphic rock > steatite

1 stone > mineral > carnelian

1 stone > mineral > chalcedony

8 stone > mineral > chlorite

1 stone > mineral > goethite

8 stone > mineral > hematite

2 stone > mineral > jasper

1 stone > mineral > magnesite

1 stone > sedimentary rock > limestone

1 No value

Artifact type

1 Display Inscription > stela

1 Figure > statue

11 seal (not impression)

126 seal (not impression) > Cylinder seal

7 seal (not impression) > Stamp seal

620 tablet or envelope > tablet

4 tablet or envelope > tablet & envelope

1 No value

Provenience

771 Alalakh (mod. Tell Açana/Atshana)

Museum Collections

522 Archeological Museum, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey

32 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

5 Australian Institute of Archaeology, Melbourne,Victoria, Australia

155 British Museum, London, UK

10 Institute of Archaeology, London, UK

47 No value

Composite/seal

12 Composite

7 Composite witness

144 Seal

9 Seal impression

611 Other

Textual

Language

627 Akkadian

2 Hittite

142 No value

Genre

523 Administrative

161 Legal

23 Letter

4 Lexical

2 Literary > Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

4 Official or display

1 Other

7 Scholarly or scientific

46 No value

School Text

0 Yes

771 No

Publication

Authors

29 Buchanan, Briggs

1 Civil, Miguel

133 Collon, Dominique

191 Dietrich, Manfried

1 Donbaz, Veysel

15 Frayne, Douglas R.

1 Grayson, A. Kirk

1 Landsberger, Benno

2 Lauinger, Jacob

191 Loretz, Oswald

1 Maidman, Maynard P.

1 Matthews, Donald M.

1 Matthiae, Paolo

5 Moorey, P. R. S.

1 Müller, Gerfrid G. W.

1 Oliva, Juan

26 Porada, Edith

6 Porter, Barbara A.

2 Reiner, Erica

1 Walker, Christopher B. F.

467 Wiseman, Donald J.

94 Woolley, C. Leonard

93 Zeeb, Frank

3 No value

Publication date

467 1953

94 1955

1 1958

1 1959

22 1966

1 1970

13 1975

1 1981

119 1982

2 1984

1 1985

2 1986

5 1988

17 1990

1 1994

1 1996

1 1997

1 2000

99 2001

62 2004

88 2005

49 2006

1 2014

1 2015

26 2016

2 No value

Credits

Contributing project

5 British Museum Collection

75 Electronic Babylonian Library

443 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

1 Wikidata

400 No value

Data

Artifact images

1 Lineart

141 Photo

Image license

142 No value

Chemical data

0 With

771 Without

External link

6 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

75 British Museum Collection

4 Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts

75 Electronic Babylonian Library

1 Statue of Idrimi

1 Wikidata

Image Annotations

0 With

771 Without

Publications

724 With

47 Without

Transliteration

134 With

637 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

771 Without

Transcription

0 With

771 Without

Translation

8 With

763 Without

Translation Language

8 English [en]