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~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 207

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Dagon Museum, Downtown, Haifa, Israel The Museum is dedicated to the history of grain products מוזיאון דגון בעיר התחתית בחיפה שוכן במבנה המשרדים של ממגורות דגון. המוזיאון מוקדש לתולדות הדגן ומוצריו, ו

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, including the ex-king of Judah, Jehoi

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose, it's a receipt for the donation of l

EconomyDaily Life
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The tablet dates back to the Old-Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 BCE.

Mythology
~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: .mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-information,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-artwork{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);bac

EconomyDaily Life
~1791 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

PBS 08/2, 120

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 120. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y2 — Year after: Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianEditorial

Babylonian Liver Omens 193, plts. XI & XLII-XLIII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)) — Babylonian Liver Omens 193, plts. XI & XLII-XLIII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Ashurnasirpal II 060

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE), preserved in the RIAo corpus as a witness to the formulaic and historical record of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.

LawMythology
~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Ashurnasirpal II 061

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, whose annals collectively document the territorial expansion and brutal suppression campaigns that defined early Neo-Assyrian imperial statecraft.

LawMythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, pl. 33

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. 33. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, Pl. X

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, Pl. X. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, pl. XII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, pl. XVIII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XVIII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, pl. XX

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XX. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, pl. XXIX

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XXIX. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

liver omens, tb. XVII (K.12792)

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, tb. XVII (K.12792). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Solar Omens, pl. IX-X

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Solar Omens, pl. IX-X. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~760 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Solar Omens, pl. V

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Solar Omens, pl. V. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Mythology
~700 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Between 1845 and 1851 CE, Sir Austen Henry Layard uncovered the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal in Nineveh. These texts, most of which dated to the 7th century BCE, were brought back to the Bri

EconomyDaily Life
~650 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (the Flood)

The single most important literary discovery of the 19th century. It rewired the understanding of the Bible's literary context and proved that the Mesopotamian flood tradition is older. It is the oldest surviving epic poetry in human history.

MythologyWriting & Literature
~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianEditorial

Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHisto

EconomyDaily Life
~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform cylinder- inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing restorations at Babylon MET ME86 11 282

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform cylinder; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of aromatics, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 118

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of date disbursement, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 172

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 65

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of dates as irbu-revenue, Ebabbar archive MET ME79 7 38

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 165

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of silver disbursements, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 26

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account of silver disbursements, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 36

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account record, inventory, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 34

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account regarding temple sheep, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 198

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- account statement, Egibi archive MET ME79 1 21

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- Atra-hasis, Babylonian flood myth MET 266810

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Mythology
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- Atra-hasis, Babylonian flood myth MET 266811

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Mythology
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- declaration before witnesses, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi MET ME86 11 147

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- declaration before witnesses, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 32

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of a receipt for silver MET vsz86.11.477b

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an accounting record MET ME86 11 339

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life
~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an accounting record (?) MET vs86 11 482a

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

EconomyDaily Life