Position in chronology
Babylonian cuneiform tablet with a map from Nippur 1550-1450 BCE
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The world it comes from
The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian cuneiform tablet with a map from Nippur 1550-1450 BCE. Kassite period [1] The "Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology" exhibit also included real artifacts excavated in regions visi
Attribution
Image: Mary Harrsch — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Babylonian cuneiform tablet with a map from Nippur 1550-1450 BCE.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABabylonian_cuneiform_tablet_with_a_map_from_Nippur_1550-1450_BCE.jpg. Description: Babylonian cuneiform tablet with a map from Nippur 1550-1450 BCE. Kassite period [1] The "Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology" exhibit also included real artifacts excavated in regions visited by the ficitional Indiana Jones in t.
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