Tablet Fragment
CBS5503
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
| Object Number | CBS5503 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Archaeology Area | West side of Shatt en-Nil |
| Locus | W side of Shatt |
| Period | Achaemenid Period |
| Date Made | 547-331 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Inscription Language | Akkadian Language |
| Description | Unbaked clay, cracked, Darius II, 5 years. Legal text fragment. Murashu; lease of lands for 3 years, 3 lines of Aramaic docket incised on Reverse, seal impressions, (Obverse)12x(Reverse)6 lines. Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B5503. |
| Length | 10.4 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Thickness | 3.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
| Other Number | P261696 - CDLI Number | B5503 - Old Museum Number | CBS 05503 - Other Number |
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