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

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.

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