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

FMB 49.1

~580 BCE·Neo-Babylonian·P427650

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P427650)

P427655 · ~2800 BCE
FMB 27
“PA~a GU4(?) 4(N14) — NESAG~a, KI~a, EN~a, NAM2, KAB, GAR 5(N14) — GAN2, AB~a, X, EN~a(?) 3(N14) — X, AD~c(?) 3…”
P427651 · ~580 BCE
FMB 49.2
P427648 · ~1800 BCE
FMB 42
P427652 · ~580 BCE
FMB 49.3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — FMB 49.1. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Bodmer Museum, Cologny, Switzerland (P427650) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427650..

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