WCMA 20.1.13

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Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P424380)

P424381 · ~2050 BCE

Orient 55, 160 no. 6

“16 workmen for 2 days: towing an empty barge from Umma to Du-geš-i(ka); for 2 days: threshing the barley and l…”

P424382 · ~2050 BCE

Orient 55, 158-159 no. 4

“612 bundles of reed, for lading the bread-boat and for the building of two boats, for the bala-obligation; fro…”

P424377 · ~2037 BCE

Orient 55, 164 no. 11

“1 sheep, (for the) siskur-offering at the threshing floor of the field GAN-mah; from Ur-halmuša; sealed tablet…”

P424383 · ~2032 BCE

Orient 55, 170 no. 18

“1 shekel of silver, as an interest-bearing loan, from Lugal-kuzu the merchant, Ubar, doorkeeper of Ninlil, has…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — WCMA 20.1.13. 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: WCMA 20.1.13 (Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) — from Bābili (mod. Babylon) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P424380). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P424380..

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