Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~580 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

CBS 03537

~580 BCE·Neo-Babylonian·P259912

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P259912)

P259911 · ~1300 BCE
CBS 03536
P259913 · ~580 BCE
BE 08/1, 042
P259910 · ~1300 BCE
PBS 02/2, 086
P259914 · ~580 BCE
BE 08/1, 051

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — CBS 03537. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P259912) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P259912..

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