Tablet

CBS16

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number CBS16
Current Location Middle East Galleries - On Display
Provenience Iraq
Period Neo-Babylonian Period
Date Made 626-539 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Inscription Language Akkadian Language
Description

tablet, upper half, Akk, astrological; last line of reverse written in a different hand; Uruk? Borsippa?; copied from two tablets; 46 x 44 lines; MB, scientific

CBS Register: baked clay tablet, fragment. 2 frags joined. Yellowish. Nabopolassar. Astrological.

Dates to the reign of Nabopolasser

Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B16.

Credit Line Purchased from Joseph Shemtob, London; subscription of E. W. Clark, et. al., 1888
Other Number P257581 - CDLI Number | B16 - Old Museum Number | CBS 00016 - Other Number | JS 8 - Dealer's Number

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