Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~430 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

BM 047361

~430 BCE·Achaemenid Persian·P370920

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The world it comes from

Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.

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From the same catalogue range (near P370920)

P370927 · ~2050 BCE
PPAC 5, 1646
“5 (gur), šuku-allotment, field A-uri; foreman: Ur-Geštinanka. 5 (gur): Ur-Ištaran. The barley of the field — i…”
P370929 · ~1800 BCE
AOAT 440, 199-200 BM 97938
“1 barig, 1 ban, 2 sila of barley: wages of 6 men, breakers [of clods]; 1 barig, 2 ban, 4 sila of barley: wages…”
P370930 · ~1800 BCE
AOAT 440, 197-198 BM 97939
“18 plow-teams (iniātum) — the registration (talpittu). 2 barig of barley: the holder of the harbu-plow. 2 ban …”
P370910 · ~760 BCE
BAM 6, 531
“(obverse, fragmentary) [...] ... [...] [...] like the ... of a man ... [...] [...] against/to Nergal(?) ... th…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — BM 047361. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: BM 047361 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Bābili (mod. Babylon) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P370920). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P370920..

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