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

RIAA 286

~580 BCE·Neo-Babylonian·P387831

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P387831)

P387823 · ~1800 BCE
RIAA 216
P387822 · ~1800 BCE
RIAA 215
P387821 · ~1800 BCE
RIAA 214
P387820 · ~1800 BCE
RIAA 258

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — RIAA 286. 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: Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (P387831) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P387831..

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